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After getting a new PC with Windows 10, I tried WSL and I found a scarily easy to smash foreign file system, no obvious way to update the offered Ubuntu version
by HelloNurse 9y ago
After getting a new PC with Windows 10, I tried WSL and I found a scarily easy to smash foreign file system, no obvious way to update the offered Ubuntu version, and incompatibility with GUI applications except for experimental X server tricks.
In other words, both Cygwin and a Linux VM with properly shared folders appear easier to use and more useful in practice than WSL; I have no idea of what Linux software is worth running under WSL despite these limitations.
Emacs, Node.js, Bash, Python, Git and many other important tools have good Windows versions, while almost everything popular is available in a package or easy to compile, and in both cases much more dependable, under Cygwin.