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When WSL2 first came out, some losers on /g/ were cheering that it would "make Linux obsolete". Four years later, I think it's safe to say they were kinda missing the point. (vlemmy.net)
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[–] addie@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Combines the power of a really half-arsed Linux distro with the pure speed of the Windows file system.

I mean, it's slightly better than nothing, but installing a real Linux distro on Windows through eg. VirtualBox absolutely fucks it into the bin. I don't see who WSL is for. People in really locked-down corporate environments?

[–] amanwithausername@vlemmy.net 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don’t see who WSL is for.

My guess is that this time they really wanted to pull the developer demographic over into the M$ sphere of influence. MSYS, MingW, and Git Shell already fill the same niche as WSL, so it wasn't destined to succeed. Thing is, they probably didn't expect it to succeed either. Microsoft's strategy has always been to throw a hundred dicks at the wall and hope that one of them sticks (think Zune, Windows Phone, etc). This time, Azure kind of stuck. WSL didn't. When you're as big as Microsoft, the occasional win more than covers the cost of a hundred fails.

[–] entropicshart@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Given that Docker/Podman heavily rely on WSL to work on windows, I would argue that it definitely has succeeded

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