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Out of curiosity, what do most people use this for? (I tried rewording this question a few times to not sound snarky, but failed.)

• kyriakos 7y ago
  Web development primarily
  • geerlingguy 7y ago
    Or most open source non-windows software work. So many tools run great (or only run) under Linux, and dev tooling for these projects is also heavily Linux-centric. Often you might be able to get a package working under Windows, but support is thin and it's prone to breakage. Easier to just run it under Linux in a VM, like what WSL2 is doing.
  • pjmlp 7y ago
    Web development with node and ruby it seems. Java and .NET Web development has been perfectly fine the last decades.
    • kyriakos 7y ago
      Node, PHP, anything Docker all seem to work better under WSL2 than windows itself.
      • pjmlp 7y ago
        Node and PHP has been running in Windows just fine for years everytime I have to deal with them. Also node is not going to stop downloading the whole Internet regardless of the host OS.
• deleted 7y ago
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• sz4kerto 7y ago
  Developing relatively large systems with dozens of different, mostly JVM-based services.
• DeathArrow 7y ago
  I develop web apps on Windows but since I want to run them under Linux, WSL is handier for testing than using a virtual machine or a Linux box.
• Dylan16807 7y ago
  Easy interplay between linux and windows programs on the same files. WSL2 in particular lets me use a BTRFS partition and expose it to windows with a lot less awkwardness than the VM I had before.
• red75prime 7y ago
  Development of an application, which runs on Linux.
• Traubenfuchs 7y ago
  Having a fully/proper/native Linux shell that is always just one wsl command away.