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Getting Started With WSL

Jeremy Morgan on February 15, 2020

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is awesome. It gives you the power to use Linux within your Windows system. A Linux shell can be difficult to l...
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Binh Huynh

I really like Terminal on Ubuntu. But after i read your post about WSL. Should i switch from Windows to Linux (Ubuntu) to use Terminal or I can use WSL on Windows ?. I'm learning web development. Thanks !.
P/S If i learning web development. Should i choose Windows or Linux (Ubuntu) to development web ?.

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Pavel Susicky • Edited

Probably one of the major disadvantage of WSL (that makes me not to use it on daily basis) are quite slow I/O operations. It should be better in next version of WSL (which is not released AFAIK)

Great article Jeremy! 😄

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Jesse

I recently switched from a Mac to Windows machine for personal use (thought the exposure would be good!) WSL has been such a benefit while I slowly learn Powershell. I keep most of my Python-related tools in the WSL file system, as well as other misc installations

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marcia

Can you explain why or which use cases someone would use wsl? Why not use Linux or a vm?

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Jesse

SUPER handy, thank you!

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Jeremy Morgan Pluralsight

Awesome, I did not know that one! Thank you

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Chris Noring

nice starter article Jeremy :)