Windows Subsystem for Linux is out of beta

Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux is out of beta by shpongled on Friday July 28, 2017 @07:52PM (#14878535)

I've been using it every single day since it was announced. It's pretty nice. There are compatibility issues with some programs (mainly networking and a couple weird syscalls), but for 90+% of things, I've had no issues.

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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux is out of beta by azinman2 on Friday July 28, 2017 @07:58PM (#14878569)

Why not just run Linux? Or use a Mac?

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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux is out of beta by shpongled on Friday July 28, 2017 @08:01PM (#14878581)

I run Linux at home on a laptop (arch), and had been dual booting my desktop for a while. Games, easy access to Office, and software compatibility issues for work software limit me primarily to windows. Plus I've been using Windows since '95. And with WSL, I don't need to dual boot anymore.

Never used a Mac, and never will. Don't see the point, everything is ridiculously overpriced. I build my own PC's

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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux is out of beta by sumedh on Friday July 28, 2017 @10:44PM (#14879219)

> Never used a Mac, and never will. Don't see the point

Try the Mac trackpad, I think you will love it.

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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux is out of beta by jaxn on Friday July 28, 2017 @08:11PM (#14878628)

My main project is Ruby, but have a small (mission critical) app that is WinForms .Net. Developing with VisualStudio (not VS Code) inside a VM on a Mac is terrible.

This is way better.

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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux is out of beta by SwellJoe on Friday July 28, 2017 @08:16PM (#14878658)

I used it when I first got my current laptop because Linux couldn't work the video properly (it could either do 800x600 resolution stably, or do 4k and freeze every few minutes). It was nice enough. I switched back to Linux as soon as the drivers got good enough and haven't looked back, but I was pleasantly surprised by how nice development has gotten on Windows in recent years. If I weren't building systems management tools that kinda need the system to be "real", I could see Windows+WSL being a great combo for people building multi-platform applications.

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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux is out of beta by wvenable on Friday July 28, 2017 @09:20PM (#14878960)

Yup. I haven't booted by Ubuntu VM since I installed it.

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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux is out of beta by adrianlmm on Friday July 28, 2017 @07:51PM (#14878531)

I do, for Ruby/Sinatra development, it works very good.

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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux is out of beta by werdnapk on Friday July 28, 2017 @10:21PM (#14879159)

As an Rails dev on OSX, do any tests (or various dev tasks) that spawn a browser work with the WSL? ie. the letter_opener gem will open a sent email in the browser, selenium will run tests in the browser, etc.

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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux is out of beta by justin--sane on Saturday July 29, 2017 @09:30AM (#14881132)

What about PostgreSQL? Last time I tried it I had to install it on Windows because of some reason I cannot remember...

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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux is out of beta by adrianlmm on Monday July 31, 2017 @04:29PM (#14895632)

I do not use Postgress, I use Firebird SQL and I had no problems installing it in WSL.

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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux is out of beta by faaq on Friday July 28, 2017 @08:16PM (#14878654)

I use Crystal (not Windows support yet) and works well.

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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux is out of beta by 43224gg252 on Friday July 28, 2017 @08:11PM (#14878630)

Microsoft employees do. (And they post here).

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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux is out of beta by faaq on Friday July 28, 2017 @08:16PM (#14878659)

Lol

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