• alejandro@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 year ago

    ACTUALLY it’s GNU/Linux (pronounced gu-noo-SLASH-li-nux). I know it’s just a “meme”, but get your facts straight buddy, this ain’t fucking le reddit.

    Don’t make me have to rm -rf your ass.

  • cajova_houba@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    Ngl, except for some issues with proxy and networking, WSL is actually a nice way of using both Windows and Linux without having dual boot or using Cygwin.

      • green@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        Getting WSL2 to work with my company’s VPN was such a pain that I just went back to WSL1 and resigned myself to the fact that I’ll never be able to run Docker in WSL locally.

      • deepswirl@kbin.social
        0·
        1 year ago

        What about it has been annoying or caused problems? I ask so I won’t be surprised if it happens to me.

        • netwren@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          So WSL1 was actually using the Windows Kernel so Networking was more straightforward because you had direct access to network syscalls.

          WSL2 is a VM in HyperV with some special sauce I guess. Downside is that means you have the same Network setup like you would a VPN.

          So when I’m developing a site and use say trunk serve. I can access it locally on my Windows browser even though it’s running on my debian WSL2. However one thing I liked to do on my local network was pull up my smartphone and open ports to look at the mobile view on an actual mobile browser.

          Well now open ports in Windows Advfirewall for a service that’s running a Linux VM?

          Now do this everytime your WSL2 VM changes it’s local IP (not your LAN IP), and everytime you switch to a service with a different port.

          Super PITA and I also broke just the regular local proxy between Windows-WSL2 trying to get it working. So now I just sigh and use the developer tools in Chrome to pretend I’m on a smartphone.

    • Raltoid@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      For basic things it’s great, and with the perfect setup it’s amazing.

      But it can be a real pain for things like USB, networking and in general connecting to anything outside its own enviroment.

  • V699@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been using Linux for over 25 years but I hate using it as desktop. Wsl provides a nice environment for development and app running in a Linux environment without sacrificing the manifold reasons for running windows. Since wsl2 Linux gui programs even run natively without having to install an x server

    • ThesePaycheckAvenging@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      manifold reasons for running windows

      Please name some other than “proprietary software that only runs on Windows”.

      I’ve switched to Linux as my main driver couple of years ago and don’t miss a damn thing (admittedly don’t use highly specialized software and ran the FOSS alternatives on Windows even before switching). Still have Windows on my work PC and dread it every day.

      • anakaine@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        “Please name a reason to use Windows other than your main reasons for using Windows.” That is how it comes across.

        There are many excellent reasons to use both operating systems. The space is like a Venn diagram. There is some overlap in the reasons people have for using either, and a whole bunch of others that don’t overlap. At this stage we should be moving well past identity politics and putting the emphasis on designing and building applications that run on multiple operating systems. This way people can use their chosen ecosystem and reap the benefits of their existing stack in terms of productivity. We needn’t judge.

        • ThesePaycheckAvenging@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          “Please name a reason to use Windows other than your main reasons for using Windows.” That is how it comes across.

          And that was exactly what I intended. The only thing Windows has going for it is better adoption. Devs would target other platforms if users chose them - it’s starting in gaming thanks to Valve and their Steamdeck.

          I really don’t see another reason, let alone a manifold of them, to stay on Windows. Especially since Microsoft has been making it worse and worse with their snooping, annoying update policy, constantly increasing pricing, ever-shorter lifecycles and push to cloud.