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Re:Creating my awesome Windows 10 dev setup by woodruffw on Friday January 29, 2021 @11:31PM (#25966073)
Thank you for the detailed response! I was stung badly by the promise of POSIX on Windows back in the Cygwin era, so it's very possible that I don't fully appreciate just how good/seamless WSL2 is.
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Re:Creating my awesome Windows 10 dev setup by dpayonk on Saturday January 30, 2021 @12:03AM (#25966298)
WSL2 has been awesome so far. I just recently decided to buy a surface book instead of a Mac because it felt like Microsoft was embracing linux more while Mac was drifting away.

After a month, other than keybindings, I’m very pleased. For me, the python experience made the difference. It’s 1st class with VSCode and remote debugging over WSL.

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Re:Creating my awesome Windows 10 dev setup by shrimp_emoji on Saturday January 30, 2021 @01:21AM (#25966742)
I switched to Linux before WSL1 came out (which I heard was awful from people who were using it), so I've never used either. Then I heard WSL2 was far better, and then later that it still has fundamental problems:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25612962 (corrupting repos)

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/5336 (no Internet access)

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