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0 points0xFFC9y ago0 comments

Cutting them some slack I think is not bad idea. They are literally integrating two big operating system together. Do you see what I am saying?

As we all know Microsoft messed up with mobile and web, but when it comes to software development they are ruler without even competition. Windows kernel is wonderful peace of software, and with this wsl they are literally showing industry how is software developed.

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flukus9y ago

I will, they've been clear about it being a work in progress.

There are a lot of other people saying how amazing it is though, when functionality wise it's only just coming up to par with cygwin.

Edit - functionality wise as a usable bash shell, it's an acceptable linux virtual machine already.

cheiVia09y ago

It is not a virtual machine and doesn't involve Linux in any way. It is an implementation of the Linux syscalls for the Windows kernel.

flukus9y ago

Why does this trigger so many people?

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tracker19y ago

I have to agree... I'm still using the bash that comes with git for windows. It actually works (mostly) as one would expect it to work.

Also, not being able to edit the WSL filesystem from inside a windows editor is a huge loss in terms of usage. It's worse than using Samba/CIFS to share a directory and edit across to a full VM. I happen to like my gui editor, but prefer to run in Linux.

WorldMaker9y ago

If you had to you can touch things in the WSL VolFS by browsing the appropriate %AppData% subfolder. I'm presuming Microsoft isn't encouraging that right now with this Interop tooling for several reasons.

At a guess one of them might be that apparently the Unix things like permissions and Unix-style metadata are stored in NTFS alternate streams (~"resource forks") that they may be worried some Windows programs might not handle quite right (ie, accidentally mangle/remove/destroy).

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0 points0xFFC9y ago0 comments

Cutting them some slack I think is not bad idea. They are literally integrating two big operating system together. Do you see what I am saying?

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flukus9y ago

I will, they've been clear about it being a work in progress.

There are a lot of other people saying how amazing it is though, when functionality wise it's only just coming up to par with cygwin.

Edit - functionality wise as a usable bash shell, it's an acceptable linux virtual machine already.

cheiVia09y ago

It is not a virtual machine and doesn't involve Linux in any way. It is an implementation of the Linux syscalls for the Windows kernel.

flukus9y ago

Why does this trigger so many people?

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tracker19y ago

I have to agree... I'm still using the bash that comes with git for windows. It actually works (mostly) as one would expect it to work.

WorldMaker9y ago

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