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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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[–] carl_dungeon 6 points 1 year ago

It was the only way Microsoft could envision serious cloud devs taking windows seriously at all- not that it worked, but going to AWS re:invent and seeing 7000 MacBooks for every 1 rando win/pc must have been writing on the wall. I’m a Mac user, but everything I build in the cloud is Linux- for me, osx is close enough with gnu tools to be a good compromise between a userland I like and compatibility I need. Trying to use a windows box to do anything without WSL is like pulling god damned teeth.