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On topic of "new Microsoft", has anyone spent decent time with the Linux Subsystem for Windows 10? I've been slowly putting it through its paces for my (admitt
by sbarre 10y ago
On topic of "new Microsoft", has anyone spent decent time with the Linux Subsystem for Windows 10?
I've been slowly putting it through its paces for my (admittedly simple) dev workflows, which mostly involves web development tools like PHP, Ruby, git and node-based toolchains, but so far it has been a pretty good experience..
- lmm 10y agoIt's only a couple of years since MS cut off SUA. Well into the supposedly "new" era. So I'm not touching this thing for a while, unless and until I'm convinced they're actually committed to it.
- Delmania 10y agoIt's my default shell in Cmder. I do occasionally run up against the walls, but overall, I haven't had any issues with it.
- yalooze 10y agoI second that. Have mostly been playing with it on some toy projects of mine but works very well. Two main gripes: 1. Filesystem performance is very slow (ie. anything in /mnt), but I know they're working on it 2. I really wish I could get constant updates for WSL without having to opt-in to the Windows Insider Program. There are things I know are already fixed but I don't want to risk the whole OS just to play with an updated BashOnWindows.
- saboot 10y agoI had a few keyboard input issues with vim, and 256 color display problems. My "solution" was to just have Xming on startup, and create a shortcut on my taskbar to launch an xfce4-terminal instead of the default cmd.exe based thing the default Ubuntu Bash program uses.
- wvenable 10y agoI've spent a bit of time in it. I can run pretty complex Linux software like Qemu emulating an embedded platform displaying an X window. However, I've had serious problems working with symbolic links. I think giving how well it works, it's just a matter of continued debugging and refinement.
- dingo_bat 10y agoMy Mint VM hasn't been woken up in ~3 months. All thanks to Bash on Ubuntu on Windows.
- CephalopodMD 10y agoRelated, has anybody figured out how to get GPU support on the sub system? I want to run neutral networks with GPU optimization, but there's not really a good solution for that in windows.
- flukus 10y agoTreat it as a virtual machine and it works fine. Try to interop with windows and it will cause headaches.