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Even clicked the linked articles and never came across a satisfying answer to the question: why? And I mean practical use cases where one would pick WSL over Li
by a_imho 9y ago
Even clicked the linked articles and never came across a satisfying answer to the question: why? And I mean practical use cases where one would pick WSL over Linux. Once bitten twice shy, I would not hold against them if people were to be skeptical when MS decides to embrace competing products.
- mastax 9y ago> And I mean practical use cases where one would pick WSL over Linux. You don't. You choose it over MSYS2/MinGW/Cygwin.
- a_imho 9y agoThat sounds sensible, though the article lacks those comparisons too if that is the intended use case. As well as a couple of others (VM, wubi)
- etatoby 9y agoExcept for the fact that you cannot launch (or otherwise control) Windows processes from the Linux environment. That's one serious limitation.
- jstarks 9y agoYou can now! You can run .exe files directly from WSL, and we append your Windows path to your Linux path by default to make this easy.
- cillian64 9y agoI have a desktop at home. I like things to just work (which in my experience they do better on Windows than Linux) and I like to play games (which aren't available on Linux, and I don't feel like messing with Wine). I also like to do some development and am most comfortable doing that in a Linux environment. So far WSL works great for all my development. I find WSL to be better integrated / less jarring than a Linux VM or dual booting. All the GUI apps I use, I run on Windows. The Linux environment I care about is all terminal-based. My only complaint is the state of terminal emulators. I use wsl-tty but it doesn't do a very good job of emulating xterm/gnome-terminal.