Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
by JCattheATM on Monday May 19, 2025 @01:30PM
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> XAMPP did not work out of the box with me on Windows (skill issue on my part, I know), so my preferred setup was to run a Ubuntu Server VM (LAMP stack) and then develop whatever I had on a Windows IDE.
Why wouldn't you have just spent 5 minutes to get XAMPP working?
Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
by ivanmontillam on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @06:06PM
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It's really a skill issue on my part.
LAMP stack worked for me perfectly on Linux out of the box, whether Ubuntu Server or any RHEL-based distro (even with SELinux enabled!).
I spent some solid 8+ hours on that, saw it uneconomical and went the VM way.
Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
by rkagerer on Monday May 19, 2025 @01:31PM
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I stopped using VMware Workstation when WSL2 broke it
Is it still broken?
Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
by petronio on Monday May 19, 2025 @04:12PM
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Nope, VMWare added the capability to work as a sort of nested hypervisor atop Hyper-V (which WSL2 and newer Windows security features depend on).
That being said, there is a performance impact.
XAMPP did not work out of the box with me on Windows (skill issue on my part, I know), so my preferred setup was to run a Ubuntu Server VM (LAMP stack) and then develop whatever I had on a Windows IDE.
I could have done that under full Linux, I just did not want that. Then Vagrant came into existence, which I'd say was for my use case (but never came around to adopt it).
I'm really happy with my WSL2 setup. I stopped using VMware Workstation when WSL2 broke it, but WSL2 is exactly what I needed to match my use case.