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Hm, chromium is cross-platform, VSCode as well, WSL is literally another platform... So why should one use specifically windows? To me this sounds less like an
by diffeomorphism 7y ago
Hm, chromium is cross-platform, VSCode as well, WSL is literally another platform... So why should one use specifically windows?
To me this sounds less like an endorsement and more like "it is not strictly worse".
- aksss 7y agoOne thing that's uniquely advantageous for me with WSL is having multiple distributions at hand all atop Windows without the hard lines of traditional VMs. So I use Ubuntu on WSL for stuff like server/network admin. But if I want to work on some code for my RPi GPIO project, I can easily access Debian on WSL (where RPi libraries will actually install), all while still having the primary OS be Windows (which confers a lot of advantages in daily productivity app use, games, etc). I'm not sure that a Mac (for instance) can match that kind of flexibility as elegantly. I may be an edge case in not sticking to one distribution but I definitely see the whole system as a uniquely better environment because of that flexibility.