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> I do almost everything in WSL. You can run Linux in a virtual machine on any OS.
by GeekyBear 4y ago
> I do almost everything in WSL.
You can run Linux in a virtual machine on any OS.
- apatheticonion 4y ago^ 100% this. WSL1 was interesting because it was a Linux compatibility layer for Windows. WSL2 is a VM that automatically provisions additional hardware and adds some paravirtualization for Nvidia GPUs. Before WSL I was just using VMWare or VirtualBox to run a Linux instance on Windows. VSCode has the ssh extension that allowed me to develop within the Linux VM while appearing to be native.
- CoolCold 4y agoTechnically correct, and I even have couple of VMs to play around from time to time, but daily driver is WSL/WSL2 in my case - interop makes things different and GPU based workloads without passing any device are deal-breaker for some people too.