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Ubuntu to soon have more WSL users than native Linux users

• Terr_ 1mo ago
  I hope it leads to conversions, because WSL means Microsoft is still building a sneaky "telemetry" dossier on every user, their devices, which users are near the same devices and networks as others users, etc. Plus "helpfully" keeping a copy of your disk encryption keys for any government that asks nicely. Running Linux in a VM doesn't protect users from any of that.
• IronWolve 1mo ago
  Yeah, wsl2 is pretty great, since I'm almost always cli based in linux, no reason to run vmware or virtualbox anymore. Windows terminal is so damn customizable, i dont even need cygwin anymore. And cuda just works in wsl, its great. I get to use claude/codex desktop also, or cli in wsl, whatever I want.
• deleted 1mo ago
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• miladyincontrol 1mo ago
  *Than native ubuntu desktop users Which like yeah, I dont think theres been a worse era for desktop users to be stuck with largely aged packages using fixed-release distros. And looking further towards servers, with how easy it is to do declarative and/or immutable setups... it doesnt bode great.
• xacky 1mo ago
  Every home user moved away when snap happened.