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What I don’t like about WSL is that I spend most of my time in the shell doing stuff and interacting with the OS. But WSL isn’t the OS. It’s still a Linux virt
by runjake 6y ago
What I don’t like about WSL is that I spend most of my time in the shell doing stuff and interacting with the OS.
But WSL isn’t the OS. It’s still a Linux virtual machine running on top of Windows.
Now, there’s ways to interact with Windows from WSL and vice versa but they’re not fast nor efficient.
I just wanted to warn others thinks about making this jump. If you spend a lot of time in shell interacting with the OS, it’s probably not going to work like you think it will.
Don’t make any big financial bets until you’ve played around with it awhile.
- stephenr 6y agoJust to nitpick technically the Linux VM is running beside a Windows VM, when you use WSL. But your point remains, and frankly I don’t quite get all the hubbub about WSL when Linux VMs have existed for years. Do people really think it’s somehow different?
- runjake 6y ago> technically the Linux VM is running beside a Windows VM Say what now? I think I was correct in my initial comment.
- stephenr 6y agoIn WSL2, Windows uses Hyper-V to run a VM. But Hyper-V is a type 1 hypervisor, so it runs on bare metal, not as a service within a regular Operating system. So when you use WSL2, both Windows and Linux are running as virtual machines, under Hyper-V.