Windows Subsystem for Linux Distribution Switcher

Post by drampelt » Tue, Jan 17, 2017, 10:10 PM UTC

marsrover wrote: post #5

mulrian wrote: post #2

Great work, I'll definitely be checking this out. I find myself using the WSL more and more recently. It still has plenty of rough edges, but Microsoft seem to be committed to improving it. The lack of a full Linux like terminal is probably one of the bigger reasons I can't switch fully over to Windows.

The lack of a full Linux like terminal is also my current hold back. I know I can use VcXsrv and run xfce4-terminal, but I would rather use something that is more native to Windows than some hacky solution. In addition, now that the Windows Console supports 24-bit color, using things like ConEmu feels like two steps back (ConEmu doesn't support 24-bit color).

Post by flukus » Wed, Jan 18, 2017, 12:58 AM UTC

tym0 wrote: post #9

Weird not to see Arch in the list, https://github.com/alwsl/alwsl did the trick for me.

Post by baldfat » Thu, Jan 19, 2017, 5:11 PM UTC

zaphar wrote: post #14

baldfat wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is why we have VMs this is not a VM but a subsystem that is sharing the same space as Windows.

His request is not really all that unreasonable. And given how the subsystems work seems to me like it might be within reason to implement.