Re:Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settin...
by cesarb on Monday January 24, 2022 @07:09AM
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> It boils down to which OS you want to be the "second-class citizen" on your machine. With Wine, it's Windows. With WSL, it's Linux.
That equivalence is only valid for WSL1. Since WSL2 runs the real Linux kernel on a VM, the equivalent for it on Linux would be running Windows on a VM.
Re:Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settin...
by rbanffy on Monday January 24, 2022 @07:20AM
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> the equivalent for it on Linux would be running Windows on a VM.
Not quite. When Windows is on a VM, you mostly run only Windows-specific software on it. Within the VM, everything works mostly flawlessly. Most platform-neutral software will be running on the Linux side, which makes accessing data from the Linux environment a non-issue.
And don't even get me started on Windows-1252 and CRLF line endings.
WSL2 still has some issues with VPN software and my company doesn't support it on my corporate Windows laptop.
It boils down to which OS you want to be the "second-class citizen" on your machine. With Wine, it's Windows. With WSL, it's Linux.