I hope it leads to conversions, because WSL means Microsoft is still building a sneaky "telemetry" dossier on every user, their devices, which users are near the same devices and networks as others users, etc.
Plus "helpfully" keeping a copy of your disk encryption keys for any government that asks nicely.
Running Linux in a VM doesn't protect users from any of that.
Yeah, wsl2 is pretty great, since I'm almost always cli based in linux, no reason to run vmware or virtualbox anymore. Windows terminal is so damn customizable, i dont even need cygwin anymore. And cuda just works in wsl, its great. I get to use claude/codex desktop also, or cli in wsl, whatever I want.
Which like yeah, I dont think theres been a worse era for desktop users to be stuck with largely aged packages using fixed-release distros.
And looking further towards servers, with how easy it is to do declarative and/or immutable setups... it doesnt bode great.
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I hope it leads to conversions, because WSL means Microsoft is still building a sneaky "telemetry" dossier on every user, their devices, which users are near the same devices and networks as others users, etc.
Plus "helpfully" keeping a copy of your disk encryption keys for any government that asks nicely.
Running Linux in a VM doesn't protect users from any of that.
Yeah, wsl2 is pretty great, since I'm almost always cli based in linux, no reason to run vmware or virtualbox anymore. Windows terminal is so damn customizable, i dont even need cygwin anymore. And cuda just works in wsl, its great. I get to use claude/codex desktop also, or cli in wsl, whatever I want.
*Than native ubuntu desktop users
Which like yeah, I dont think theres been a worse era for desktop users to be stuck with largely aged packages using fixed-release distros. And looking further towards servers, with how easy it is to do declarative and/or immutable setups... it doesnt bode great.
Every home user moved away when snap happened.