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Would you mind elaborating a bit? What's the exact functionality that's required? Is it like notification support for file modification or something?
Yep, but they fixed it already, fix rolled out with the last major Windows 10 update.
In my experience, emulators are never quite the same as the real deal. Has anyone used this, and if so how was it?
It's not an emulator
Can someone point to a decent X server for windows?
From the article: > NO current plans to support X/GUI apps, desktops, servers, etc. at this time
It's unsupported, which means it doesn't necessarily work well and they won't help you out.
finally I can remove the win32 specific code from all the open source software I maintain not sure that was what Microsoft was going for though...
Unless you're going to force your users to install WSL up front(which is a pretty poor first contact) I think you might be better served by keeping it around.
In my experience, emulators are never quite the same as the real deal. Has anyone used this, and if so how was it?
It is not an emulator and the experience is pretty great for anything involving Linux as a workstation. Even though they say "NO current plans to support X/GUI apps, desktops, servers, etc. at this time", this is achievable by installing VcXsrv.
In my experience, emulators are never quite the same as the real deal. Has anyone used this, and if so how was it?
I had it break on me a while ago because there was no inode support and that's needed for hot-reloading of code when developing with web frameworks. I'd rather just use Linux and not be surprised by anything.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2016/10/07/wsl-...
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I've been using it every single day since it was announced. It's pretty nice. There are compatibility issues with some programs (mainly networking and a couple weird syscalls), but for 90+% of things, I've had no issues.
Why not just run Linux? Or use a Mac?
This is way better.
Does anybody use this?
I hope Visual Studio gets good integration here because it truly is a first class IDE and it's hard for me to tempt our windows developers away based on that fact combined with the "We don't support linux on desktops" and "No VMS" attitude of my company.
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I've been using it every single day since it was announced. It's pretty nice. There are compatibility issues with some programs (mainly networking and a couple weird syscalls), but for 90+% of things, I've had no issues.
Why not just run Linux? Or use a Mac?
This is way better.