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What is the advantage of using VMware Workstation Pro for this as opposed to using WSL2?
by dragonwriter 9mo ago
What is the advantage of using VMware Workstation Pro for this as opposed to using WSL2?
- TheTaytay 9mo agoI 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 agoYeah, I do most Linux stuff on Windows in containers using podman leveraging WSL2, but that's a good point.
- tracker1 9mo agoFunny, 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 agoI wouldn't put it past Opus 4.5 in yolo mode to vm escape if it felt like it haha
- UltraSane 9mo agoStronger isolation and choice of OS