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Discussion on: Windows or Mac (or Linux๐Ÿ˜) for devs?

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Mohamed Dahir

What kind of cryptic errors did you encounter in WSL2?

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marcellothearcane

Things like how you can't access network sockets low level, and you can't access USB devices properly for flashing with UF2 (i.e. STM32 devices). That's just two recent issues I've had.

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Nino Filiu

Plenty of them, I left Windows years ago, but on top of my head:

  • npm install of simple, front-end-only packages, that failed due to node-pre-gyp
  • Docker that crashes
  • ssh that can't connect