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Re:MinC Is Not Cygwin by trallnag on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @10:35AM (#43772717)
WSL2 supports all the good stuff like systemd. With WSL1 I'd have to rely on Windows utilities or handroll a lot more things
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Re:MinC Is Not Cygwin by bornfreddy on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @01:19PM (#43774401)
> WSL2 supports all the good stuff like systemd.

That has to be sarcasm, right?

Then again, I see WSL as a poor man's Linux ("poor man" being a developer in some enterprise who can't pick their tools freely due to some IT policy).

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Re:MinC Is Not Cygwin by trallnag on Thursday April 24, 2025 @01:28PM (#43785246)
I like systemd. But I only know and use it superficially, mainly for fairly simple units that are sometimes running on a schedule.

And while WSL is worse than Linux without Windows, I still prefer it over MacOS with Linux running in a VM.

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