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Windows Subsystem for Linux has been huge however. I used to have to run Vagrant or something on Windows to build stuff but WSL makes life super easy as a devel

Windows Subsystem for Linux has been huge however. I used to have to run Vagrant or something on Windows to build stuff but WSL makes life super easy as a developer on Windows. I'm still one of the handful of people at a 600 person company though that runs Windows. :/

cube2222 9y ago
I'd like to second that. I've been using WSL + Docker on Windows for a long time now for web development (linux backend development) and it's been a breeze. Works flawlessly. You can do fun things, like tail logs to a file using linux and simultaneously analyze the file using windows tools.
- swah 9y ago
  How do you access your files inside the subsystem? Don't you get permission problems (executable files etc)? I had so many issues with Virtualbox in Windows, I rather just use a Linux desktop distro...
  - cube2222 9y ago
    They made a compatibility layer. You shouldn't access files in WSL using windows, but the other way around it's absolutely ok. So if my projects are at C:/Development/Projects/... Then I just open /mnt/c/Development/Projects/... on WSL I haven't had any permission problems, not even once. Same for Docker for Windows. It uses Hyper-V + some network disk sharing magic, which makes directory mounts into docker containers work great. So sometimes, like, when I need to debug a non-cross-platform linux program. (WSL doesn't handle process forking well, so some debuggers, like Go Delve don't work) I just do something like docker run -v C:/Development/Projects/MyProject:/mnt/MyProject -it ubuntu /bin/bash