Poll HN: What operating system do you primarily develop on?

Re:Poll HN: What operating system do you primarily develop on? by ayushnix on Monday January 24, 2022 @07:33AM (#30056851)

> I used to develop on Linux, but eventually wanted something that "just works" so I switched back to Windows. Much less time spent tinkering and more time spent getting things done

I started recommending WSL on Windows to a few friends who wanted to get a taste of how Linux works after hearing praises about it although I've never actually used it myself. I recently realized that systemd doesn't work on WSL (without ugly hacks) and /mnt also mounts Windows disks.

I have stopped recommending WSL since then. Although I don't recommend anyone to use Linux either.

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Re:Poll HN: What operating system do you primarily develop on? by wongarsu on Monday January 24, 2022 @07:52AM (#30056997)

WSL works pretty well for typical command line usage (your typical "grep | sort | uniq" stuff) or for "this command line tool only runs/compiles on linux" usecases. If you push it much more than the abstraction starts getting leaky and you have to get more involved (though WSL2 can be pushed a lot more, e.g. getting systemd running in WSL2 doesn't seem that bad [1]).

1: https://gist.github.com/djfdyuruiry/6720faa3f9fc59bfdf6284ee...

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Re:Poll HN: What operating system do you primarily develop on? by kanetw on Sunday January 30, 2022 @11:57PM (#30144659)

systemd doesn't work on WSL? Blessed Microsoft.

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