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WSL is okay for basic needs (I can do Go coding with the ACME editor just fine) but you will find it lacking in the long run. There are some bugs here and there

WSL is okay for basic needs (I can do Go coding with the ACME editor just fine) but you will find it lacking in the long run. There are some bugs here and there, the need to build tons of programs from source (the apt library is quite outdated) and there are tons of missing libraries. Incredibly promising but I wouldn't recommend it in its current state for professional work. I honestly think Windows is great for development, but for that you need to embrace the whole OS and live in .NET land. If you need POSIX and commercial applications such as Office, Skype and Adobe you're currently better off with macOS.

Amezarak 10y ago
> (the apt library is quite outdated) It's exactly the same as that of Ubuntu, is it not?
- TurboHaskal 10y ago
  It is 14.04 LTS and packages are missing.
  - Amezarak 10y ago
    What packages/types of packages? I haven't noticed anything so far, but I've mostly installed Python related stuff and various libraries.
ksherlock 10y ago
It's based on ubuntu 14.4 trusty, which is 2.5 years old at this point. Apparently beta versions use 16.4 xenial so that will be updated at some point. However, it does not automatically update and the current recommendation is to save off anything you need, uninstall, and reinstall. Alternatively, you can sudo editing your /etc/apt/sources.list file to add an entry for xenial. I did that to replace hopeless obsolete versions of gcc (4 -> 5) and cmake (2.8 -> 3.2). So far, all of my problems with WSL have been ubuntu.