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I don't think vendors will do this for a while. After getting a lot of flak for railing against this (replacing the gplv2 linux kernel with a proprietary closed

I don't think vendors will do this for a while. After getting a lot of flak for railing against this (replacing the gplv2 linux kernel with a proprietary closed source one, essentially), I did some reading... it seems as if it's so buggy all kinds of basic software doesn't even work. On top of all the idealogical reasons to not use this, pragmatically MS has a very long way to go before the WSL is any kind of real threat to GNU+linux. Emphasis on GNU. This is usually where someone naively says "but GNU tools aren't that good and aren't used these days" (which is utter bs) If you take the GNU and the linux out of GNU+linux and put it top of windows, what do you have left? Basically just windows. To hell with that. Windows is malware. https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.html https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.html

trentnelson 9y ago
It's not buggy at all -- I've been using it extensively since it was first available and have not run into a single issue.
- metaobject 9y ago
  We had issues getting cron to run properly a month or so ago on Windows 10. Researching the issue revealed that other people had the same issues. So there certainly are some bugs.
- AlexeyBrin 9y ago
  To be fair, it depends on your usage, here are two problems that I found: * Swift runs natively on Ubuntu, however on WSL only the compiler works. If you try to run the REPL it will crash. * Emacs, slow start, seems to work for simple editing. Crashes when you try to install a package or when you try to list the available packages.