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    [–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    WSL is the best thing that's ever happened to windows

    [–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    it's interesting they call it windows subsystem for linux

    - oh, so it's a subsystem for Linux?

    - no, it's a windows subsystem

    - ...for Linux?

    - kind of, I guess

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

    Yeah Windows subsystems to operate Linux

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

    "Linux is open source and free! You can do whatever you want with it! It's our thing!"

    Microsoft: "Whatever I want with it?...Free?...Hm...This is my thing ."

    [–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    WSL is the best thing that’s ever happened to windows

    WSL is great but the NT kernel was/is more important, then userspace GPU drivers (which Linux still lacks), then WSL.

    People now in their 20s don't realize how utterly bad Win9x and then the first consumer grade NT-based WinXP were (and those older may have forgotten). Win7, 10, and 11 are paradise by comparison. These days I can cope with Windows. I don't love it but it's not a daily cause of anger like the Windows dark ages. Heck, winget even makes software installation bearable.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Winget-ui (renamed to something annoying I choose not to remember) is pretty great. Does Winget, Choco, pip, and some others. Better package manager ui by far than the laggy garbage on a lot of Linux distros, even if you do have to deal with annoying UAC nonsense on the regular.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

    Except for virtualization

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

    I found WSL kinda useless when it first came out, you didn’t have any low level access and they explicitly refused ssh connections unless you paid for windows professional and interacting with files on windows was either impossible or just very buggy I’m still not quite sure which, I think the problem was that they used the wrong slash in the file system and most programs that interacted with it didn’t understand that, not to mention networking was a chore.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Wsl = very cut down version of linux