I loved coLinux! Was super simple to set up and way less overhead than a VM.
People talk a lot about WSL2 as if it's "already here", but WSL2 still requires the latest update of Windows 10 from two months ago, or a slightly older build along with an "insider preview" activated copy of Windows, and you have to enable Hyper-V. Not all devices/users will be able to support all of this and it will break compatibility with some apps.
Given that, your other option is WSL1, which is not really a replacement. If you want to run Docker on it, you either have to install Docker for Windows (which may also have conflicts with Hyper-V apps) or use the oldest stable version of Docker on Linux along with some annoying hacks to be able to run a container. All of this, and you finally run some apps, and it feels like half your system's performance is gone, and the apps run at about 1/5th their normal speed.
Maybe in a year most people will be on the right build of Windows for WSL2, and maybe we'll have patched all the Hyper-V conflicting apps, and maybe there'll be a way to use it without a long HOWTO and researching buggy commands. Until then, a VM is way easier, more functional, faster, and more reliable.
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I loved coLinux! Was super simple to set up and way less overhead than a VM.
People talk a lot about WSL2 as if it's "already here", but WSL2 still requires the latest update of Windows 10 from two months ago, or a slightly older build along with an "insider preview" activated copy of Windows, and you have to enable Hyper-V. Not all devices/users will be able to support all of this and it will break compatibility with some apps.
Given that, your other option is WSL1, which is not really a replacement. If you want to run Docker on it, you either have to install Docker for Windows (which may also have conflicts with Hyper-V apps) or use the oldest stable version of Docker on Linux along with some annoying hacks to be able to run a container. All of this, and you finally run some apps, and it feels like half your system's performance is gone, and the apps run at about 1/5th their normal speed.
Maybe in a year most people will be on the right build of Windows for WSL2, and maybe we'll have patched all the Hyper-V conflicting apps, and maybe there'll be a way to use it without a long HOWTO and researching buggy commands. Until then, a VM is way easier, more functional, faster, and more reliable.