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> > If windows can get the Linux subsystem stuff working 100% It has to be a whole lot better than it is now. You know what would be awesome? If I could have s
by stcredzero 8y ago
> > If windows can get the Linux subsystem stuff working 100%
It has to be a whole lot better than it is now. You know what would be awesome? If I could have something like VirtualBox Seamless mode, but without all of the hassles. I open a control panel, pick from a list of lightweight distros, and the Linux apps appear on the Windows Start panel. I open them from there, and they just open.
The killer would be this: Let me have multiple virtual machines, which I can snapshot, copy, etc, then let me switch between them on the fly. Do this, while letting me keep the same Linux home directory in a way that looks to the guest OS like mapping it as a network drive. (But which is much faster, so I can compile without penalty.)
Come to think of it, a feature set like this could easily fit into MacOS.
- koffiezet 8y ago> and the Linux apps appear on the Windows Start panel. GUI's are explicitly not the focus of WSL, and WSL is not VM's - it's running native Linux code on top of the Windows kernel. It is possible to run an X server on your windows and let your Linux gui binaries use that though.
- stcredzero 8y agoThere is a huge difference in UX between what you just described and what I just described.