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> And I mean practical use cases where one would pick WSL over Linux. You don't. You choose it over MSYS2/MinGW/Cygwin.
by 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.