Re:WSL2 can now mount Linux ext4 disks directly
by nikau on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @07:23PM
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Even just the fact you can run windows binaries from wsl2 is a killer feature, its nice being able to run something like tasklist.exe and process the stdout in bash.
Sure you could write a similar script in Powershell or cmd, but its a headache I don't need.
Integration etc. It's just much faster and easier to pop up a terminal window straight into a shell on WSL than it is doing the same through a third party virtualization system.
>Who here is writing software which runs on Linux, yet needs to be running Windows while they do it?
Me ? Enough people that it justifies putting time into WSL and adjunct software (Windows Terminal) ?
There's certainly enough software on Windows that I need, especially on the audio/video front but also stuff like Visual Studio for my C# code. And there's UNIX software I equally need (headless vim and anything that runs on the CLI). It's a near perfect fit for me.