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If nothing else, WSL is part of windows now, so it's trivial to get that set up and hard to argue against most places. You still get stuck with your UI being la

If nothing else, WSL is part of windows now, so it's trivial to get that set up and hard to argue against most places. You still get stuck with your UI being largely windows, but the guts all being over on linux is enough for me personally.

Liquix 3y ago
WSL is great but it does nothing against the invasive advertising, political messages, clickbait articles in the start menu, and surveillance - some of the main pain points of Win10/11.
- MSFT_Edging 3y ago
  May I ask, what political messages you've been seeing?
  - pie_flavor 3y ago
    They are presumably talking about the MSN news feed that Windows thinks should create popup notifications in Win11, and you have to go into the settings and turn it off to stop having opinions about the House Speaker vomited onto your screen. MSN is factually biased one way in terms of how often they post from particular sources, but they post articles from all manner of sources (which is not always what you want[0]) and seeing an article from an extremely biased source will cause the user to assume MSN is somewhere near that biased themselves, since that heuristic is applicable to outlets themselves. [0]: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/narrative https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/narrative
  - chaps 3y ago
    Not political messages, but the first time I used the start menu in windows 10 after years away... They showed an MSN article for Kim Kardashian. Within seconds it completely validated my dislike of windows.
delecti 3y ago
Connecting an IDE to code managed within WSL is certainly more complicated. I've also had my IDE freeze pretty regularly because of a three-way fight between WSL, my IDE, and corporate scans.
- kadoban 3y ago
  Fair. VS Code has worked for me very well, but I'm sure experiences vary.
- KallDrexx 3y ago
  Fwiw I do all my rust and c# from within wsl with gwsl (Not wslg, the x windows that comes with windows 11). It's worked flawlessly for the past year for multiple Jet brains IDEs and was trivial to set up.

Liquix 3y ago

WSL is great but it does nothing against the invasive advertising, political messages, clickbait articles in the start menu, and surveillance - some of the main pain points of Win10/11.

MSFT_Edging 3y ago
May I ask, what political messages you've been seeing?
- pie_flavor 3y ago
  They are presumably talking about the MSN news feed that Windows thinks should create popup notifications in Win11, and you have to go into the settings and turn it off to stop having opinions about the House Speaker vomited onto your screen. MSN is factually biased one way in terms of how often they post from particular sources, but they post articles from all manner of sources (which is not always what you want[0]) and seeing an article from an extremely biased source will cause the user to assume MSN is somewhere near that biased themselves, since that heuristic is applicable to outlets themselves. [0]: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/narrative https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/narrative
- chaps 3y ago
  Not political messages, but the first time I used the start menu in windows 10 after years away... They showed an MSN article for Kim Kardashian. Within seconds it completely validated my dislike of windows.

delecti 3y ago

Connecting an IDE to code managed within WSL is certainly more complicated. I've also had my IDE freeze pretty regularly because of a three-way fight between WSL, my IDE, and corporate scans.

kadoban 3y ago
Fair. VS Code has worked for me very well, but I'm sure experiences vary.
KallDrexx 3y ago
Fwiw I do all my rust and c# from within wsl with gwsl (Not wslg, the x windows that comes with windows 11). It's worked flawlessly for the past year for multiple Jet brains IDEs and was trivial to set up.