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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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    [–] Flemmy 4 points 1 year ago

    That's funny, I did the opposite - I got used to developing on osx, then Linux, but that was always on my work computer - my desktop has always been Windows (I'm still using the same license and chassis from the computer I bought in high school a decade and a half ago).

    Then I burnt out hard, and started picking up contracts here and there, but didn't have the money to pick up a second computer powerful enough for gaming or work. So I ran virtualbox and avoided cmd like the plague for a while... It was driving me nuts, so I made plans to run Linux with Windows in a hypervisor - I was looking at pci passthrough so I could give it direct access to the graphics card.

    But then wsl came out and it just didn't seem as important. Even as Linux gaming has grown, I just haven't felt the need to switch... It's sometimes finicky and setting everything up on a new computer is a pain, but the only time I considered switching one of my machines over is setting up LLMs - that was a real pain to coax into working, and it'd run better on Linux

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Meanwhile, the huge improvements that Proton has gone through since 2018 have made Windows damn near obsolete for myself and many other Linux users. I really only keep it around on my gaming machine for VR titles and if I want to use Discord screen sharing (since they still haven't fixed the lack of audio on Linux) at this point, and my main laptop has been Windows-free for years now.

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    [–] PsychedSy 3 points 1 year ago

    The irony is I mostly use wsl to pop open a terminal and apt-get update/upgrade.

    [–] sauron 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Linux is Linux.

    WSL is Bill Gates' wet fart of an OS running Linux.

    Definitely not the same thing.

    [–] Cringe2793 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Is it not? It's basically a Linux container running on Windows, isn't it?

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    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    its pretty clear they are going to push the desktop os off the boat for something linux based. might take years. the OS is already no longer "in charge" everything is hypervisor run now.

    its possible very few would even notice a swap out once they reach a certain level of capability. I am sensing a willingness to pull what apple has done many times and just cut legacy support off at the knees.

    it may be time.

    [–] GustavoM 2 points 1 year ago

    imagine thinking whatever happens in /g/ is relative/serious/non-ill-intended in any way

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    It gives me the chance to realistically insist that my fellow developers work under linux, so they stop randomly changing the case of filenames in the repo. And work in the same environment we're deploying in.

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