wsl

ACTUALLY it's GNU/Linux (pronounced gu-noo-SLASH-li-nux). I know it's just a "meme", but get your facts straight buddy, this ain't fucking le reddit.

Don't make me have to rm -rf your ass.

I've recently taken to calling it "GNU Plus Linux"
- I use Arch btw
- I use Alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU Coreutils, or any other GNU code. It's Linux, but it's not GNU+Linux
Gonna need to see that proper sudo bruh
Don't make me have to rm -rf your ass.

Using this
Alpine Linux:
Average arch/Gentoo user LOL

Rm /rf good meme

Ngl, except for some issues with proxy and networking, WSL is actually a nice way of using both Windows and Linux without having dual boot or using Cygwin.

Word of advice, I recently found out that the inotify implementation is broken on WSL! I wrote an application that works fine on linux, detecting when a file is updated, or deleted or created if I monitor the folder it's in. However, on WSL, once the file is deleted, I get no further events for that file in the monitored folder. So while WSL works quite nice, how they could break something as fundamental as that without a big red flashing warning label is beyond me.
Ugh yeah the networking on wsl2 has been annoying me lately.
- Getting WSL2 to work with my company's VPN was such a pain that I just went back to WSL1 and resigned myself to the fact that I'll never be able to run Docker in WSL locally.
- What about it has been annoying or caused problems? I ask so I won't be surprised if it happens to me.
For basic things it's great, and with the perfect setup it's amazing.

But it can be a real pain for things like USB, networking and in general connecting to anything outside its own enviroment.
I think the networking implementing a virtual ethernet link is pretty cool, but it really sucks when I'm trying to debug web apps when not wanting to use CMD or Powershell.

I've been using Linux for over 25 years but I hate using it as desktop. Wsl provides a nice environment for development and app running in a Linux environment without sacrificing the manifold reasons for running windows. Since wsl2 Linux gui programs even run natively without having to install an x server

manifold reasons for running windows

Please name some other than "proprietary software that only runs on Windows".

I've switched to Linux as my main driver couple of years ago and don't miss a damn thing (admittedly don't use highly specialized software and ran the FOSS alternatives on Windows even before switching). Still have Windows on my work PC and dread it every day.
- "Please name a reason to use Windows other than your main reasons for using Windows." That is how it comes across.
  
  There are many excellent reasons to use both operating systems. The space is like a Venn diagram. There is some overlap in the reasons people have for using either, and a whole bunch of others that don't overlap. At this stage we should be moving well past identity politics and putting the emphasis on designing and building applications that run on multiple operating systems. This way people can use their chosen ecosystem and reap the benefits of their existing stack in terms of productivity. We needn't judge.
- Eh, Windows-only software certainly seems like a valid reason to me. People are also allowed to have personal preferences.
  
  Don't get me wrong. Linux is the only desktop OS I use. I've daily driven it on my personal machine for about 5 years and at work for about 6 months. I vastly prefer it over the alternatives, but I do put up with a fair amount of annoying bullshit (mainly graphics, sleep, and Bluetooth issues) that would probably be less of an issue on Windows (or macOS). I still use Linux because I can tolerate those problems in exchange for the benefits, but I can see why other people wouldn't want to.
- In addition to games, which is one of the primary reasons I use my PC, I don't like LibreOffice and I don't like the big Linux desktop environments that exist and I can't be bothered to sort through the smaller ones to find one I vibe with, when I'm perfectly happy with Windows as a desktop OS.
  
  WSL offers the best of both worlds.
undefined> I’ve been using Linux for over 25 years but I hate using it as desktop.

YMMV but why? Linux window managers are so plentiful, there's implementations that look basically identical to windows 2000/xp/7. KDE was there for a long time, I personally enjoy XFCE - but there should be a window manager for everyone's taste...

Convenient that the original one had a penguin

A spawn that some devs actually like.

this is the kind of quality shitpost I came here for

I will just leave this here https://www.reddit.com/r/greentext/comments/eeokjx/anon_realizes_linux_is_autistic/