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Every time I read about WSL I can't help but wonder why cygwin is never mentioned. Cygwin provided all this over a decade ago.
Cygwin was able to run unmodified elf binaries on windows? And it was doing it a decade ago? Wow, that's really impressive.
But to your point they were built for cygwin, not linux.
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Why not just run Linux? Or use a Mac?
I run Linux at home on a laptop (arch), and had been dual booting my desktop for a while. Games, easy access to Office, and software compatibility issues for work software limit me primarily to windows. Plus I've been using Windows since '95. And with WSL, I don't need to dual boot anymore. Never used a Mac, and never will. Don't see the point, everything is ridiculously overpriced. I build my own PC's
Try the Mac trackpad, I think you will love it.
Why is it called Linux, though? There's no Linux there at all IIRC, in the sense that it's not using the Linux kernel.
I hope my Macbook days would be over soon. After using Macbook Pro many years, I find good Windows machines are as reliable as Mac's ones. Apple products are usually overpriced, much less options for hardware accessories and upgrades, very expensive to fix. I have to keep running both Mac & Windows machines which is very inconvenient sometimes.
I went back to the 2017 rMBP and really like it. I use Windows in a VM and have the Cmd -> as end and Cmd I'd still buy a Thinkpad if they put their old keyboards back in service.
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+1 on Surface Book. Great build quality, good dev machine and decent gaming laptop as well.
Was thinking about getting one for work, and gaming is a nice perk What kind of specs/graphics/resolution do you get on that for games?
Why is it called Linux, though? There's no Linux there at all IIRC, in the sense that it's not using the Linux kernel.
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The linux filesystem has to be segregated from the windows filesystem. If I remember correctly, the linux FS can read from windows FS, but not write to it, due to locking issues. Or something like that. Whatever it was, it made me discount it as a way to write windows code. Instead, I'm using Git Bash, which is based on mingw
I believe you got it inverted. You cannot write on the WSL file system from Windows, but the other way (writing on windows from bash) is ok.
I hope my Macbook days would be over soon. After using Macbook Pro many years, I find good Windows machines are as reliable as Mac's ones. Apple products are usually overpriced, much less options for hardware accessories and upgrades, very expensive to fix. I have to keep running both Mac & Windows machines which is very inconvenient sometimes.
Which laptop manufactures have you found to be as reliable and well put together as macbooks? I haven't had too much luck with dells or lenovos.
See this comment from 2 months ago on HN [1].
Because of that negative point, I'm now considering one of the Ubuntu Dell Precision models and would appreciate any experiences on HN of Dell and international support for business class laptops.