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"Enabling Windows users a limited Linux experience should help encourage more Linux switchers." I really wished this was the case, however I hardly imagine Mic
by squarefoot 7y ago
"Enabling Windows users a limited Linux experience should help encourage more Linux switchers."
I really wished this was the case, however I hardly imagine Microsoft execs discussing at meetings the introduction of WSL to encourage people to switch to Linux.
- rbanffy 7y agoA "limited Linux experience" has been available to Windows users since Cygwin allowed us to have bash and gcc on a Windows machine. I used it a bit in the early 2000's and extensively in 2008-2009 when I was issued my first Windows laptop in ages. Before my laptop suffered a most regrettable accident that rendered the Windows partition inoperable and forced me to switch to Linux. When hardware virtualization became available and memory became more abundant, running Linux VMs was a no-brainer. WSL2 is faster, better integrated and closer to what a Linux environment is supposed to be.