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I am on Thinkpad T480, switched from ubuntu to windows, and finds wsl to be awesome.

• sgt 6y ago
  It's pretty sad when Linux users have given up on the Linux desktop and decided to just use Windows. Having WSL is surely a great advantage so you can get the job done, but it gives a feeling of a cobbled together system that is a reaction to the failure of Linux on the desktop.
  • toyg 6y ago
    There is still no business model for Linux on the desktop, sadly. Ubuntu was the closest we got to having a "Redhat for desktops" and they too bailed to the server/cloud space (and phones, and anything that promised a bit of $$$).
    • cyberdrunk 6y ago
      The only "business" model I see is when someone like Musk decides to pour billions into freeing humanity from Windows. Ironically, it could be Gates Foundation's next big charity project!
      • toyg 6y ago
        That's basically what Shuttleworth tried, and it didn't work. Alright, he's no Musk and certainly no Gates, but he did spend a good chunk of his own change.
• derriz 6y ago
  I find WSL sits uncomfortably in that space between cygwin and running a fully isolated VM using VirtualBox. My initial “wow” response evaporated quickly - especially the rough edges around accessing filesystems and I quickly went back to Cygwin and Debian running in a VM.
  • apta 6y ago
    WSL2 (a full blown Linux from what I understand) should alleviate most, if not all of those issues. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-index https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-index