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WSL appears to have significant adoption already. Is there any advantage over simple multibooting?
by fuzzfactor 7y ago
WSL appears to have significant adoption already.
Is there any advantage over simple multibooting?
- hakfoo 7y agoOnly semi-snarky answer: The song and dance of drivers, and not having to reboot. Plenty of mainstream PC configs are going to be a hassle to get to functional parity on the Linux side. You can complain "it's deliberately crippled hardware/bad drivers" but odds are, the guy buying the fleet PCs are not checking if they're Linux-friendly. If I just want to run some command-line dev tools, I can probably get there faster by installing WSL than trying to start with a Ubuntu ISO and setting up the nVidia drivers.
- fuzzfactor 7y agoWhen the one buying the fleet PC's is a Bozo what can you do? Give full credit to them for the capabilities while fully documenting the limitations compared to alternative choices.