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.
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Pff, issue reports should ask for the output of 'uname -ar'. It clearly shows its wsl as wsl runs a special kernel
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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.
Itβs not a story the Vibe Coders would tell you
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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.
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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.
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This pleb thinks we should listen to them. Frankly, this neighborhood is done for!
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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: π€©
It's a wsl bug: π€
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.
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Me looking disgusted at myself in the mirror, for I am doomed towards eternal Microsoft-dependency at work.
Still better than cygwin
God I remember suffering through cygwin at a VB shop back in '17β¦ literal hell
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Aww, cry harder.
I started using Linux when it was Redhat, in the 1990s, and it came on a bunch of CDs.
And I use WSL in addition to Debian, Raspbian, and Ubuntu.
Knock this tribal bullshit off.
Aww, cry harder.
Some real pleasant people here.
Yeah, why would they post something like this to the community for serious takes about Linux?
CDβs?! Ooh La La Mister Fancy French man with the digital media! Back in our day linux came on a plastic 45 inside Fruity Pebbles cereal and it had loose crusty sugar in the grooves that introduced errors in X that meant the screen scrolled like an out-of-whack tv and you had to wait for the prompt to roll by so you could try another resolution that would core dump and spit you back to the A:\ drive and eject the disc into your shins like a frisbee! And thatβs the way we liked it!
I started with Slackware. It came on floppies.
Now move to the back of the line youngster.
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Small blessings. Seeing a WSL user means that some dev out there didn't have to implement Windows support.
Most WSL users I know all run Linux at home; WSL is the best they can get at work.
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fuck it
run windows in a virtual machine in Linux, then run wsl within it.
Yea..... But I have 3 Linux VMs running in Hyper-V. That counts for something right?
It is honestly better
it's a unix system on top of a windows system; i know this!
Yo dawg...
Born to Gentoo+i3, forced (by work) to WSL
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.
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I still don't know what WSL is for.
To keep developers on the platform, because their own ecosystem is shit.
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Windows Stolen Linux
Run Linux stuff on Windows.
A big use case is development with Docker containers.
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Linux community: why don't more people use Linux? Also Linux community: LOL LOOK AT THESE STUPID FUCKERS TRYING LINUX WRONG, LETS ALL GO SHIT ON THEM
goddamn do yall deserve eachother and your 0.01% OS share or whatever meaningless percentage of the OS market you represent.
Do you realize it's just a funny meme picture on the internet? We are on [email protected] and the picture is so mild, it's just a friendly poke for fun and you just try to tear us a new asshole for that, damn, chill.
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