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I'm going to watch that video tomorrow because this stuff is fascinating and I really want to see what amazing stuff MSFT has come up with now, with WSL already
by pkulak 5y ago
I'm going to watch that video tomorrow because this stuff is fascinating and I really want to see what amazing stuff MSFT has come up with now, with WSL already being pretty darn good.
That said, it's still a VM and Windows is still a PITA to deal with. Just today I wanted install a script as a Windows service. Windows won't do it. You have to Google for 20 minutes, then download some .exe and use that as a wrapper. The simplest things are difficult or impossible, and I don't think shoving your life into a VM is going to solve all that.
- egeozcan 5y ago> Windows is still a PITA to deal with I think even a big chunk of Windows users would agree with that too. However, the point is, it's still massively, unbelievably popular and not supporting Windows is like having a web app that doesn't run on Safari (which IMHO also suck from a developers perspective, pretty okay when just using). You can get away with it, yes, but your audience will be (depending on context) unnecessarily limited.
- pkulak 5y agoYeah, I did kinda argue next to your point. haha
- vips7L 5y agoPower shells New-Service command didn’t work for you??
- pkulak 5y agoI did use something from the terminal (no idea what terminal, there's like 4...), and it installed, but then when I ran it it timed out. Finally found something called "NSSM", and that worked a treat. Of course, only after wading through 100 paid clones with huge Google Ad budgets.