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I always run it in a virtual machine when I'm developing on Windows or OS X.

• dx034 6y ago
  Shouldn't WSL do the trick? Especially with WSL2 I found no need to use a dedicated virtual machine to use Linux applications in Windows.
  • shakna 6y ago
    WSL2 _is_ a dedicated virtual machine for Linux on Windows. It runs under Hyper-V.
    • Already__Taken 6y ago
      That was wsl1, wsl2 is much tighter integrated than just thinking of it as a VM running in hyper V.
      • ygra 6y ago
        WSL 1 was not a virtual machine. It was a re-implementation of the Linux kernel API within the Windows kernel. As such, it's probably more comparable to CoLinux (if that's still a thing).
  • jawngee 6y ago
    It's not really about running linux applications as much as running your application in the same or similar environment to what you are ultimately deploying on.
    • siliconapex 6y ago
      Exactly, I could run in WSL but I run in Docker or VirtualBox to emulate the production environment.