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on the other hand some of the problems you mentioned were solved on Windows with WSL.
by kyriakos 8y ago
on the other hand some of the problems you mentioned were solved on Windows with WSL.
- tomxor 8y agoWSL is not a good solution from what i've seen, most of it's proponents have never used Linux on real hardware and are comparing it to gitbash for windows or whatever, or have never used linux before. Some things run fine, others are insanely slow due to either slow translation layer or simply because the behaviour of the underlying windows kernel actually is really many times slower than linux, e.g forking - I didn't know this, just found out first hand. The file-system integration is a bag of shit - the common issue being trying to use git in linux while editing files from a GUI in windows will cause frequent explosions, failed fs updates to to arbitrary windows locking are not fed back to linux which really fucks with git. (i'm talking about using the linux fs from windows which is the way with the least issues - doing the reverse has even more severe consequences). Also the terminal app is the worst i've ever seen. FYI I'm talking from experience helping my colleagues who use windows. </rant> IMO, if you must use windows and need linux/gnu stuff, just stick linux in a VM with a full GUI, it may seem more resource intensive running a whole other kernel and GUI, but it will work reliably without horrible surprises.