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Very excited about these new changes and improvements, particularly the RAM releasing and automatic storage reclamation.
WSL2 replaced my Macbook many years ago, and these days I couldn't be happier using Windows + komorebi as a DE over NixOS running on WSL2.
They should focus more on this kind of features, instead of paddling Copilot and AI every 5 minutes, or doing crazy stuff like removing the right Ctrl key to replace it with the new Copilot key. The only advantage of the latter is that is pushes more people to Linux faster. If they just focus instead on developers ( "developers! developers! developers!" ) and gamers, instead of AI gimmicks, things would be more peach…
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Only if there's no person at the helm with some sort of... um... vision, they call it?
If only Satya Nadella would dogfood the OOTB experience of Windows 11 and not whatever his IT departments set up for him, he'd probably throw his laptop out the window and fire half the Windows managers.
Other than all installers being terrible, the only one I can sort of remember is a rant about "My Documents" and how the word "My" made no sense.
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Waaaaaay more people use Copilot than WSL. Like probably 100000x more. Most businesses run everything on Windows and Microsoft. That's their business. They don't give a shit about Windows Home edition or nerds crying and switching to Linux. You're not their market.
Unfortunately there are lots of devs stuck on windows, wsl is very popular.
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Only if there's no person at the helm with some sort of... um... vision, they call it?
If only Satya Nadella would dogfood the OOTB experience of Windows 11 and not whatever his IT departments set up for him, he'd probably throw his laptop out the window and fire half the Windows managers.
I was always under the impression that WSL was good on RAM - giving it back when not needed. There was never a way to tune RAM usage AFAIK.
Wsl2 has a config file setting for ram usage. WSL1 just shares the windows RAM.
They should focus more on this kind of features, instead of paddling Copilot and AI every 5 minutes, or doing crazy stuff like removing the right Ctrl key to replace it with the new Copilot key. The only advantage of the latter is that is pushes more people to Linux faster. If they just focus instead on developers ( "developers! developers! developers!" ) and gamers, instead of AI gimmicks, things would be more peach…
I thought that was either Google, Facebook, or Amazon depending on which way the winds are blowing on a given day.
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Unfortunately there are lots of devs stuck on windows, wsl is very popular.
Lots of people prefer Windows + WSL over Mac. I can’t fathom why anyone would choose Windows over Mac or Linux.
Most things end up happening in Docker regardless, but things are just smoother in WSL. Not to mention that Windows has proper Window management and multiple display support.
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Unfortunately there are lots of devs stuck on windows, wsl is very popular.
Lots of people prefer Windows + WSL over Mac. I can’t fathom why anyone would choose Windows over Mac or Linux.