I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
I'm in a similar situation except no.
I am sitting right now at a Windows machine. I've been playing games and drinking coffee until it's time to start work. I have WSL.
But I don't use it. It's not quite good. The Windows Terminal Preview is terrible even for something "alpha", when you consider that people on Linux knock up new free terminals every other week that actually work. I use it sometimes, but I've installed an X-server and used xfce-terminal instead.
Everything about Windows feels clunky, and I don't see why there's a benefit to running two systems, especially when I'm going to be running another bunch inside docker or VirtualBox, and I'll have to figure out how to connect those up and then live with the 10x speed penalty. I use docker on my work MacBook and it's slower at disk IO than my 10-year old thinkpad.
I think Windows has years to go before this sort of solution is good enough for use as a daily driver and I don't see why I'd bother even then.
Plus I'm still suspicious. I'm always suspicious, but I really do not believe Microsoft's propaganda. WSL is EEE continuing through the 21st century.
It's good to be critical, but I think Microsoft is making strides toward accepting Linux in a way they haven't over the past 20 years. Only good can come of better interoperability between OSes, I think.
I have no issues with wsl, but I mainly just do git and code html, css, and js. I have no reason for GUI stuff since it’s all available in Windows. WSL2 is a pretty big difference in performance compared to the original release also.... as far as eee, maybe, maybe not. But I think a money making machine such that Microsoft is sees the benefits of open source and the value add to their products which helps their bottom line. And the bottom line is their main concern. If it makes money, they will keep it up.
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I'm in a similar situation except no.
I am sitting right now at a Windows machine. I've been playing games and drinking coffee until it's time to start work. I have WSL.
But I don't use it. It's not quite good. The Windows Terminal Preview is terrible even for something "alpha", when you consider that people on Linux knock up new free terminals every other week that actually work. I use it sometimes, but I've installed an X-server and used xfce-terminal instead.
Everything about Windows feels clunky, and I don't see why there's a benefit to running two systems, especially when I'm going to be running another bunch inside docker or VirtualBox, and I'll have to figure out how to connect those up and then live with the 10x speed penalty. I use docker on my work MacBook and it's slower at disk IO than my 10-year old thinkpad.
I think Windows has years to go before this sort of solution is good enough for use as a daily driver and I don't see why I'd bother even then.
Plus I'm still suspicious. I'm always suspicious, but I really do not believe Microsoft's propaganda. WSL is EEE continuing through the 21st century.
It's good to be critical, but I think Microsoft is making strides toward accepting Linux in a way they haven't over the past 20 years. Only good can come of better interoperability between OSes, I think.
I'll believe them when they switch the Windows kernel for a Linux one ;)
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I have no issues with wsl, but I mainly just do git and code html, css, and js. I have no reason for GUI stuff since it’s all available in Windows. WSL2 is a pretty big difference in performance compared to the original release also.... as far as eee, maybe, maybe not. But I think a money making machine such that Microsoft is sees the benefits of open source and the value add to their products which helps their bottom line. And the bottom line is their main concern. If it makes money, they will keep it up.