When using WSL, be sure to not mention anything about that when reporting bugs because that'll just confuse the issue for the maintainers. They like having that casually mentioned about 20 messages into the troubleshooting process.
Pff, issue reports should ask for the output of 'uname -ar'. It clearly shows its wsl as wsl runs a special kernel
I don't think anyone is a "wsl user" so much as they've found themselves in a position where the lowest friction solution is utilizing wsl for a given situation.
Around 2019, even up until like 2022 if you wanted to run docker in windows, that was how to do it.
I learned the shell in wsl before I switched to Linux full time. I wasn't trying to learn it intentionally. Just didn't want to develop software on windows. It's a great gateway drug that reduces friction by a lot.
The terminal is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.
It’s not a story the Vibe Coders would tell you
Look what they have to do to mimic a fraction of our power
Look what they have to do to mimic a fraction of our power
I think that sounds more like Cygwin.
This sort of elitism really hurts adoption
How? WSL is absolutely awful for adoption. Theres no GUI, it bearly runs GUI apps, and you have to manually configure it. If my first experience with Linux was WSL I would never touch Linux again.
This pleb thinks we should listen to them. Frankly, this neighborhood is done for!
WSL is cool when you first use it then you realize it actually kind of sucks
When someone ask for help with a Linux issue: 🤩
It's a wsl bug: 🤭
Open source now tho
What's the benefit for that? Can you fork it and run a copy in windows (or is it too integrated in wondows) or is it just Microsoft wanting your free labour (bugfixes etc)?
Mom! Windows is doing EEE again.
Me looking disgusted at myself in the mirror, for I am doomed towards eternal Microsoft-dependency at work.
Still better than cygwin
Small blessings. Seeing a WSL user means that some dev out there didn't have to implement Windows support.
Yea..... But I have 3 Linux VMs running in Hyper-V. That counts for something right?
It is honestly better
fuck it
run windows in a virtual machine in Linux, then run wsl within it.
Most WSL users I know all run Linux at home; WSL is the best they can get at work.
it's a unix system on top of a windows system; i know this!
Yo dawg...
I tried to get the *arr stack running on it at one point, using Docker.
Do not do this. Just install the Windows apps. Yes, it's a mess. Yes, they work.
Windows users when they see a wine user???
I'm glad wsl exists so I don't have to bother with windows and people can still run my programs.
I still don't know what WSL is for.
To keep developers on the platform, because their own ecosystem is shit.
Windows Stolen Linux
Run Linux stuff on Windows.
A big use case is development with Docker containers.
I only use Windows because I have to work with a corporation's IT helpdesk staff to get on their VPN if I want to do contract work for them. They are not likely to help me get connected from Linux; they'll just find another contract dev. Once in, I do everything in Linux because my code will ultimately run in a Linux cloud container of some sort. WSL works well enough for me to do this. I'd rather have Linux on bare metal, but whatever. I'm in; I'm coding; I'm getting paid. I'll put up with a little bit of suck.
Born to Gentoo+i3, forced (by work) to WSL
How do we feel about cygwin users, fellow linux hivemind drones?
It is a old code sir but it still checks out
Hint: :q!
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