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What's your work flow like? Do you have to keep files / directories separated based on using whether your using bash or windows?
by zengid 9y ago
What's your work flow like? Do you have to keep files / directories separated based on using whether your using bash or windows?
- detaro 9y agoNot the parent, but also someone using WSL: Generally not, that is for me the main benefit of using WSL. Files in the Windows file system can easily be accessed from the Linux side (C: appears as /mnt/c), so I basically do everything shell-based in WSL Bash and at the same time can access files there with my Windows-based GUI tools. I've tried that before with VM setups, and sharing filesystem folders gave me way more trouble there. You can't access the linux filesystem with Windows tools, but I haven't really missed that, since I seldom touch files there directly, and if I do they are text files that are easily edited in vim. It's pretty good, although you'll find the occasional program that won't run due to missing syscalls (or needs a special flag to be convinced to run) and I'd love if they shipped a working X setup.