It makes sense from MS’s perspective. They started not liking Linux, and now have integrated it in their OS with WSL, thusly becoming a full clown for the great hypocrisy compared to their original dislike of Linux.
I live in Linux; what I do not know is Windows. Don’t have any, and haven’t had to touch it in over a decade. Should I know WSL if I expect to never have to use Windows for the rest of my life?
nope. it’s just a fancy word for a linux VM running on windows with special integrations like full file system access etc.
it’s mainly used by developers who need to use windows for work but want a linux filesystem and command line for development. integrates well eith VSCode.
15 years ago, it was hard to be a developer and avoid some contact with Windows (unless you were senior enough to have some pull), especially in the East Coast, where all high tech lags by about 5 years. Now days, the assumption that everyone must have to have some Windows interaction is more of an ass-U-me.
There’s exactly one Windows machine in my life right now, and it’s my wife’s work computer. I only have to touch it when it’s fucking something basic up, like audio, and I couldn’t install something like WSL on it in any case.
Pretty sure this should be in reverse? And can you really say you’re into Linux if you don’t even know what the fuck WSL is?
It makes sense from MS’s perspective. They started not liking Linux, and now have integrated it in their OS with WSL, thusly becoming a full clown for the great hypocrisy compared to their original dislike of Linux.
I think there’s probably some linux users that have never heard of WSL
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I live in Linux; what I do not know is Windows. Don’t have any, and haven’t had to touch it in over a decade. Should I know WSL if I expect to never have to use Windows for the rest of my life?
nope. it’s just a fancy word for a linux VM running on windows with special integrations like full file system access etc.
it’s mainly used by developers who need to use windows for work but want a linux filesystem and command line for development. integrates well eith VSCode.
Ah. So equally irrelevant for Mac folks?
15 years ago, it was hard to be a developer and avoid some contact with Windows (unless you were senior enough to have some pull), especially in the East Coast, where all high tech lags by about 5 years. Now days, the assumption that everyone must have to have some Windows interaction is more of an ass-U-me.
There’s exactly one Windows machine in my life right now, and it’s my wife’s work computer. I only have to touch it when it’s fucking something basic up, like audio, and I couldn’t install something like WSL on it in any case.
I think WSL was Microsofts way of trying to get developers to keep using Windows.