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Somehow they are adding RHEL, but not Fedora which what the majority of WSL users would want to use.

alephnerd 2y ago
Why would they? Fedora usership is significantly less than RHEL, and adding RHEL support to WSL helps the Windows Server use case
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago
  I would expect WSL to mostly be used in the desktop/workstation usecase... I guess there must be people using RHEL for that, but I would have thought Fedora was more common?
  - alephnerd 2y ago
    > I would expect WSL to mostly be used in the desktop/workstation usecase It's heavily used for enterprise and production use cases in organizations (often legacy type orgs though ik a F250 tech company that does this as well) who don't want to use additional spend building a dedicated Linux fleet and a dedicated Windows fleet. Before you'd have to use Cygwin and deal with some level of non-reproducibility, but with WSL you can essentially get a MS supported Cygwin. > but I would have thought Fedora was more common The Linux workstation usecase is extreme niche compared to the dual server usecase.
- cdkmoose 2y ago
  I also think there is a chunk of the audience that would like to develop on the same distro they would be deploying to. There is a fair amount of RHEL in production environments. Larger operations may be running Windows for business purposes and being able to work with WSL/RHEL on the same (or upgraded for developers) machine makes some business sense.
pjmlp 2y ago
What majority? I haven't touched Fedora in years.
- pelagicAustral 2y ago
  I did recently, while on a distro-hopping journey. It was super nice experience, IMO, next best to Ubuntu for development. It looks nice, and it runs smooth, getting up and running with my stack was super simple, no issues with JB IDEs, etc... The only reason I switched to Pop_OS was basically that I am far more used to apt commands and general Ubuntu ecosystem, not to mention most of the VMs I work with are Ubuntu server, so I don't get cognitive-stall when looming around servers...
  - pjmlp 2y ago
    I only care about UNIX like for years. At work we usually use a mix of Ubuntu, Red-Hat or the distribution of the cloud vendor. In a different timeline I would be using Solaris, or NeXTSTEP (which I can get my fix with macOS).

Why would they? Fedora usership is significantly less than RHEL, and adding RHEL support to WSL helps the Windows Server use case

yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago
I would expect WSL to mostly be used in the desktop/workstation usecase... I guess there must be people using RHEL for that, but I would have thought Fedora was more common?
- alephnerd 2y ago
  > I would expect WSL to mostly be used in the desktop/workstation usecase It's heavily used for enterprise and production use cases in organizations (often legacy type orgs though ik a F250 tech company that does this as well) who don't want to use additional spend building a dedicated Linux fleet and a dedicated Windows fleet. Before you'd have to use Cygwin and deal with some level of non-reproducibility, but with WSL you can essentially get a MS supported Cygwin. > but I would have thought Fedora was more common The Linux workstation usecase is extreme niche compared to the dual server usecase.
cdkmoose 2y ago
I also think there is a chunk of the audience that would like to develop on the same distro they would be deploying to. There is a fair amount of RHEL in production environments. Larger operations may be running Windows for business purposes and being able to work with WSL/RHEL on the same (or upgraded for developers) machine makes some business sense.

pjmlp 2y ago

What majority? I haven't touched Fedora in years.

pelagicAustral 2y ago
I did recently, while on a distro-hopping journey. It was super nice experience, IMO, next best to Ubuntu for development. It looks nice, and it runs smooth, getting up and running with my stack was super simple, no issues with JB IDEs, etc... The only reason I switched to Pop_OS was basically that I am far more used to apt commands and general Ubuntu ecosystem, not to mention most of the VMs I work with are Ubuntu server, so I don't get cognitive-stall when looming around servers...
- pjmlp 2y ago
  I only care about UNIX like for years. At work we usually use a mix of Ubuntu, Red-Hat or the distribution of the cloud vendor. In a different timeline I would be using Solaris, or NeXTSTEP (which I can get my fix with macOS).