• Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 months ago

    Pretty sure this should be in reverse? And can you really say you’re into Linux if you don’t even know what the fuck WSL is?

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      7 months ago

      It makes sense from MS’s perspective. They started not liking Linux, and now have integrated it in their OS with WSL, thusly becoming a full clown for the great hypocrisy compared to their original dislike of Linux.

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          7 months ago

          nope. it’s just a fancy word for a linux VM running on windows with special integrations like full file system access etc.

          it’s mainly used by developers who need to use windows for work but want a linux filesystem and command line for development. integrates well eith VSCode.

          • Ah. So equally irrelevant for Mac folks?

            15 years ago, it was hard to be a developer and avoid some contact with Windows (unless you were senior enough to have some pull), especially in the East Coast, where all high tech lags by about 5 years. Now days, the assumption that everyone must have to have some Windows interaction is more of an ass-U-me.

            There’s exactly one Windows machine in my life right now, and it’s my wife’s work computer. I only have to touch it when it’s fucking something basic up, like audio, and I couldn’t install something like WSL on it in any case.