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Re:WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history by jevgeni on Saturday January 02, 2021 @10:58AM (#25613626)
One reason might be, is that they might need to in part work with a server-side system that runs on Linux and it’s easier this way.

But maybe they also need to work with stuff thats Windows only. Say they need to produce media assets with the Adobe suite.

Not everything is vimmable.

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Re:WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history by pjmlp on Saturday January 02, 2021 @11:19AM (#25613775)
SSH and X Windows servers also exist for Windows.
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Re:WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history by jevgeni on Saturday January 02, 2021 @12:08PM (#25614230)
It takes me 2 minutes to install WSL Ubuntu. Or I could spend half a day on figuring out a hacky solution to a Windows/SSH/XWindows workflow that offers even a comparable level of integration. It will grow into weeks of obsessive tweaking until I feel compelled to write a blog post for HN where I show my sick setup and hours and hours I dumped into this, while meaningful work piled up in my TODOs.

... Or I could just install WSL.

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Re:WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history by pjmlp on Saturday January 02, 2021 @12:38PM (#25614520)
Or just install Humming Bird, working just fine for me since 2000.
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Re:WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history by whenitrains on Saturday January 02, 2021 @03:52PM (#25616411)
Or just install WSL?

What's the problem with Microsoft having an answer to this?

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Re:WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history by pjmlp on Sunday January 03, 2021 @02:40AM (#25620280)
In what concerns Microsoft, I praise them for having acknowledged the strategy error that was not giving the UNIX subsystem the same love as Win32.

Because as proven by macOS and now WSL adoption, GNU/Linux would never have taken off if PCs already had a mature set of POSIX toys, given that its users care 0% about GNU/Linux, and would be deploying to HP-UX, Solaris, Aix, Irix, Tru64 just as well.

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Re:WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history by jevgeni on Sunday January 03, 2021 @03:38AM (#25620493)
Cool. I'll use WSL though.
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