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For Windows a quick win is to install VMware Workstation Pro (which is free) and install Ubuntu 24.04 LTS as a VM. Broadcom bought VMware then released Worksta

• Tossrock 9mo ago
  Windows has the WSL for native Linux vms, these days (and also the past ~decade)
  • hu3 9mo ago
    I can rm -rf Windows files from WSL2. And so can LLMs. Meanwhile a VM isolates by default.
    • jassmith87 9mo ago
      You can turn all the interop and mounting of the windows FS with ease. I run claude in yolo mode using this exact setup. Just role out a new WSL env for each claude I want yoloing and away it goes. I suppose we could try to theorize how this is still dangerous buts its getting into extremely silly territory.
      • hu3 9mo ago
        That's great to know! And important to clarify because by default WSL has access to all disks.
• dragonwriter 9mo ago
  What is the advantage of using VMware Workstation Pro for this as opposed to using WSL2?
  • TheTaytay 9mo ago
    I think it has default access to your c drive via a mount, for one. You could add layers/sandboxes, but it’s not isolated.
    • dragonwriter 9mo ago
      Yeah, I do most Linux stuff on Windows in containers using podman leveraging WSL2, but that's a good point.
    • tracker1 9mo ago
      Funny, but I wrote some environment initialization and setup scripts that you just unzip to a new dev desktop, and run the first powershell script, and it will work through (have to reboot after a couple installs), but it goes through, then once WSL is up, it'll rely on the /mnt/c/ paths to run bash scripts to initialize the wsl environment too... was pretty handy.
    • bt1a 9mo ago
      I wouldn't put it past Opus 4.5 in yolo mode to vm escape if it felt like it haha
  • UltraSane 9mo ago
    Stronger isolation and choice of OS