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I'm pretty impressed with WSL. I've just moved back to Windows (Dell XPS) after ~13 years using Mac OS, and in many ways WSL is nicer than what I used to do bef
by mikepurvis 8y ago
I'm pretty impressed with WSL. I've just moved back to Windows (Dell XPS) after ~13 years using Mac OS, and in many ways WSL is nicer than what I used to do before with juggling Homebrew packages and Parallels VMs depending on the demands of a particular task. Between that, PowerShell, and installing stuff via Chocolatey, I feel right at home.
But without things like WSL and native OpenSSH, I doubt I would even have looked; I would have stuck with MacOS forever or just gone native Ubuntu.
- phunky 8y agoYou've still got access to brew via linuxbrew. https://docs.brew.sh/Homebrew-on-Linux https://docs.brew.sh/Homebrew-on-Linux I'm also in the process of switching back from Macos to Windows thanks to WSL.
- Sangeppato 8y agoI personally prefer scoop as a package manager, give it a try!
- mikepurvis 8y agoYes, it's on my list to check out! I just haven't yet found something I wanted to install that wasn't available in chocolatey—scoop's forte appears to be CLI utilities, and I haven't gotten as far into that realm.