I swear WSL already had Arch.
I’m more surprised that it wasn’t already on WSL, WSL has been out for /awhile/ now. I used to use it for cross platform development before I moved my gaming rig over to Debian
Either way, glad to see it. 👌
very true
Does this really expand to Windows users? As a non-technical user, this is the first I’ve heard of WSL and I’m sure I’m not alone.
I think WSL is pretty much a developer thing in reality
That makes sense. I definitely could see a use case for developers, but I don’t see many average pc users having a need for or even being aware of this service.
It does more to make windows accessable to Linux users.
And really speeds up Java compilation.
It makes more sense that it has benefits in that direction than the other way around.
It’s for developers to not switch dev machines from Windows. The average user would be far better served with Mint or Ubuntu versions of Linux for Windows like experience.
It is pretty popular if you want Linux tools on Windows
Avoid gWSL though, it is a unstable mess
I actually just canned windows in the past month. I’m not a developer or “power user,” but I ran back to Linux due to the screen capture and A.I. nonsense that Microsoft has been pursuing recently. I have been very happy with my recent experience on Linux and don’t imagine going back to Windows in any fashion. There have been incredible strides made since I was last on Linux, about 15 years ago.
The name of that thing is so confusing. It’s an alternative to wine, right?
Nope, it uses the MS hypervisor to run a VM of Linux with a deep filesystem and networking integration
So it’s like Wine but worse.
And for Linux instead of Windows.
Maybe you mean the opposite to wine? The 1st WSL (called V1) was a sort of simulation of the Linux terminal, but wasn’t too compatible. The current version (V2) is a full virtual machine that kind of shares the network and file system automatically, so it can run basically any Linux command line tool.
