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    [–] Freesoftwareenjoyer 37 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

    I think they want to compete with GNU/Linux and attract its users. They made WSL for probably the same reason. They even have a terminal now that almost doesn't suck.

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Except it does..... (Its really slow and clunky)

    [–] SauceFlexr 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Windows terminal is now my preferred terminal. I use it on a daily basis at work, and adding in WSL just makes things easier in general for Windows. My google search history is no longer Powershell eqicalent for X in linux.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

    Well I'm glad it works for you. Also I don't think it runs under wine so you are stuck on Windows.

    [–] Freesoftwareenjoyer 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Yeah, when I used it, every command had like a second of delay. It was also buggy. But it has tabs and you can even split the window into multiple panes. So big improvement over cmd.

    [–] BenPranklin 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

    How long ago did you try it? I gave the first iteration of wsl a chance and had the same experience, it was super slow especially for things like ls. Its a lot better since wsl2. Probably 90% or more the performance of bare metal install of linux

    [–] Freesoftwareenjoyer 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    I used it last year on Windows 10 (I was forced to use Windows by my employer). I didn't use it with WSL, just with Git Bash.

    [–] BenPranklin 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Also forced to use windows for work. That wasn't the windows terminal program being slow, that was git bash.

    [–] Freesoftwareenjoyer 1 points 9 months ago

    Ah, interesting. I didn't realise that it was slow.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

    wsl is good for when ure forced to use windows