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WSL2 is probably hard to beat. They've added GPU passthrough, and now have Wayland built-in with wslg. Some buggy stuff remains, systemd support is a bit roug
by tyingq 5y ago
WSL2 is probably hard to beat. They've added GPU passthrough, and now have Wayland built-in with wslg. Some buggy stuff remains, systemd support is a bit rough, etc. But they do keep iterating. I do wish they had a full-screen mode where you could use your own window manager, like many Windows X11 servers optionally allow.
But it's good enough now that I rarely find things that don't work. At least for now, it's also a bit of an escape from corporate over-management of desktops. Most companies haven't yet figured out how to overmanage it in the way they do with regular Windows, Linux, and MacOS.
- Shadonototra 5y agoThat's not the reason people use linux They move to linux to be in control of their OS, to manage their dependencies and to embrace an open platform that scale from embedded to IoT to datacenters If your goal is to use a proprietary OS that spy on you and is bloated, only to run a linux VM, then you don't understand why cloud native is 100% linux That's the problem of the people who work at Microsoft have, they became blind and don't understand the real intent of people using linux! Bloat driven development is certainly not one of them!
- tyingq 5y agoI agree that set of people is one group of users. I use WSL to write code for work, where I also need Windows for Office and some drawing tools. I imagine I'm not the only one.