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