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OP here (disclaimer, I work for Microsoft, but I'm a Linux and Mac guy on the Azure team). Yes, it really has. Originally many things didn't work, node, redis
by bketelsen 9y ago
OP here (disclaimer, I work for Microsoft, but I'm a Linux and Mac guy on the Azure team). Yes, it really has. Originally many things didn't work, node, redis, others wouldn't even run. Now I can't find anything that won't run at all and my only complaint overall is that disk IO is a little slower than on the Windows side of things. Overall it's really nice. Zero changes to my Ubuntu dotfiles.
- cVwEq 9y agonmap doesn't work, as one example.
- poizan42 9y agoIt's also quite special as it needs raw socket access (doesn't it work in connect() mode though?), it is on the backlog though as I understand. Other things that won't work are fuse and VPN's and loading arbitrary kernel drivers (it's surprising how many people don't seem to get that it only implements userland compatibility)
- stcredzero 9y agoLook at the cousin post to yours in this thread. As is often the case, the use-cases of the programmers are quite different from the use cases of many other users, but the system is optimized only for the programmer's use cases.
- rhinoceraptor 9y agoMy machine only crashes maybe once every other week now. Mostly when I'm copying files in/out of the WSL filesystem, or doing any disk intensive tasks, such as npm install. I do all my work in vim/tmux, and I run that inside of XFCE terminal running in WSL, connected to Xming. So all and all, it's better than Cygwin but I'd much rather use a Mac or Linux/BSD.