Bell-Curve Opinions on Engineering

Re:Bell-Curve Opinions on Engineering by jagrsw on Sunday July 03, 2022 @08:22PM (#31972198)

  > WSL is good enough for most things.

WSL1 is good for maybe 50% of things I tried - as it has rudimentary or nonexistent support for some syscalls - eg more advanced ptrace() commands are not supported, similarly not all clone() options work. And it's just the beginning of problems

It's good for stdio/net code, but code which makes use of more arcane OS functionalities will frequently break.

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Re:Bell-Curve Opinions on Engineering by antioedipus on Sunday July 03, 2022 @08:44PM (#31972336)

Also, why run all of Microsoft’s spyware and deal with their forced updates just so you can get through to a slightly slower and less compatible version of Linux.

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Re:Bell-Curve Opinions on Engineering by semicolon_storm on Sunday July 03, 2022 @10:15PM (#31972821)

Simple answer, being forced to use Windows as the primary OS by corporate policy.

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Re:Bell-Curve Opinions on Engineering by wmf on Sunday July 03, 2022 @09:01PM (#31972433)

You know WSL2 has been out for some time, right?

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