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You can say that about Linux as well; the bread-and-butter of the CLI experience is still the GNU stuff. EDIT: Yes, there are non-GNU Linux distributions, but

You can say that about Linux as well; the bread-and-butter of the CLI experience is still the GNU stuff. EDIT: Yes, there are non-GNU Linux distributions, but WSL is based off Ubuntu specifically and ships with a GNU userland by default.

hultner 9y ago
What if you run a ToyBox userland then? Or BusyBox for that matter
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- cryptarch 9y ago
  What if your run ToyBox on Ubuntu? You have a lot of work to do upfront and get less functionality in return.
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skrause 9y ago
There are Linux distributions which contain almost no GNU software, e.g. Alpine Linux which is built around musl libc and busybox: https://alpinelinux.org/about/ https://alpinelinux.org/about/
- cryptarch 9y ago
  WSL is "Ubuntu GNU/NT". You can't base your WSL install off other distros AFAIK.
  - yakk0 9y ago
    It takes a little work, but SuSE can work with WSL too: https://www.suse.com/communities/blog/make-windows-green-part-1/ https://www.suse.com/communities/blog/make-windows-green-par...
skrebbel 9y ago
I feel that you miss the point of WSL. Bash and coreutils have worked on Windows for years. In fact, they ship with git so most developers have had them for years. The point is compatibility much more than CLI UX. The ability to run that nodejs or Python project even though one of the 1352 subsubsubdependencies has a bug on Windows.
- cryptarch 9y ago
  So it's supposed to be more stable than Cygwin? Is it that right now? I thought Cygwin was very stable and included most things you could want, while also supporting Win7/8, which are the last versions I'm willing to run on my hardware.