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Re:The Day Windows Died by GeekyBear on Monday April 03, 2023 @03:14AM (#35419665)
> I do almost everything in WSL.

You can run Linux in a virtual machine on any OS.

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Re:The Day Windows Died by apatheticonion on Monday April 03, 2023 @05:05AM (#35420524)
^ 100% this.

WSL1 was interesting because it was a Linux compatibility layer for Windows. WSL2 is a VM that automatically provisions additional hardware and adds some paravirtualization for Nvidia GPUs.

Before WSL I was just using VMWare or VirtualBox to run a Linux instance on Windows. VSCode has the ssh extension that allowed me to develop within the Linux VM while appearing to be native.

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Re:The Day Windows Died by CoolCold on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @03:26AM (#35436267)
Technically correct, and I even have couple of VMs to play around from time to time, but daily driver is WSL/WSL2 in my case - interop makes things different and GPU based workloads without passing any device are deal-breaker for some people too.
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