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0 pointsshmerl5y ago0 comments

Personally I don't see any benefit that WSL can offer that regular Linux can't. But I don't have any interest in Windows, so your case might differ.

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Bedon2925y ago

Yeah, I have a few things that keep me in Windows. The primary users of the apps I work on are all on Windows, so having a Windows box around tends to be useful to check everything is good.

ArcGIS - Windows only, has enough issues as it is, virtualizing it doesn't tend to go well. Though you can do something like VMWare Fusion mostly successfully.

MS Office - Yes there are alternatives, but we sill operate primarily in Office, and the alternatives are not perfectly compatible. Especially when collaborating with other companies its important. Teams / O365 are certainly getting better, but still not there yet.

Steam - Although that is certainly getting better on Linux as well. And my gaming time is pretty limited these days.

shmerlOP5y ago

If they can't work in Wine, you can always run the outliers in Windows VM on Linux, instead of doing the reverse :)

LaGrange5y ago

WSL2 is by far superior to running Windows in a VM, mostly because it's not "just" Linux in VM.

And anyway, just the way it lets me manage multiple instances of Linux is far superior to anything I experienced on Mac or Linux itself. By the current standards, Wine is just _painful_ to use. Meanwhile Windows window management and the terminal app have made great strides in last couple years.

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