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The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source.
(blogs.windows.com)
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this post was submitted on 19 May 2025
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Uh.. But that's what it's for? Like it's it's primary purpose..? They created it for devops..? What are they smoking?
Msys2 was not created for devops, I just happen to be a devops engineer who uses it. Their websites describes it as:
Because it makes software building, packaging and distributing as simple aand standardised as it is on Linux, it means they effectively have a very good CLI on their hands. On my work laptop, I now use WezTerm with fish shell and helix editor for my workflow, and live in the terminal. Would this be possible to do without msys2 or wsl? Yes, but it would be a huge pain.
It's like telling a car mechanic to not use duct tape imo
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