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Personally speaking, while I think that WSL is neat as heck, and very convient; I don't trust Microsoft to not abandon it the way they abandoned Windows Service
by rnd0 9y ago
Personally speaking, while I think that WSL is neat as heck, and very convient; I don't trust Microsoft to not abandon it the way they abandoned Windows Services for Unix ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX ) once it gets popular enough.
So I'll enjoy it while it's here, but I'm nowhere near uninstalling VirtualBox. Once burned and all that.
- ygra 9y agoThe main difference is that SUA never was popular enough. Nor was it very useful to most people because POSIX compatibility doesn't mean much to most projects, but Linux, OSX, or BSD compatibility does. Having a system no one uses that's not compatible enough with other real-world systems is kinda a good reason for discontinuing it.