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AndrewImagine having Windows installed in 2024. /s
ššø š šŖ šŖ šµ š± šŖšUnfortunately Windows is still the most user āeasy to useā system. As much as I dislike it, itās designed for the average tech illiterate consumer.
Iāve been flip flopping between Linux and Windows for a few years.
taladarWith all the UI changes on every version in the last few years that simply isnāt true. Windows is becoming harder and harder to use even if you know what you are doing, much less if you donāt know half the computer related terminology.
Unfortunately, Windows becoming better and better. You can literally run Linux while running Windows (thatās why coders still use Windows) and now you can even remove pre installed bloatware. Can you imagine? They even copy KDE look!
Are you talking about WSL!? WSL is not even close to actual Linux. Additionally, if I need to run Linux while using Windows, I will be using a VM like a seasoned professional, not the Windows equivalent of Wine in 2008.
Can you describe the essentials of what WSL is? Does it map UNIX file structure to Windowsā one? Can I access the Windows FS through it? Does it have POSIX commands?
I heard/seen a lot of people using either WSL or āUbuntu terminalā and I donāt have any interest because I donāt plan on using anything like this in my life, but I do want to at least understand what benefits it brings and can you replicate the true Linux terminal experience on Windows without creating a VM that have different FS from the host. Basically, I want to know if I still have any strings that I can pull to convert people to Linux, because there amount of such strings decreases every so slightly with every year, it seems.
Put simply, Linux is a kernel; WSL is a partial emulator of that kernel with exceedingly little support for the programs that attract people to it.
As one popular example, thereās no support for anything graphical. Iāve heard a lot about how the feature is coming, but Iāve yet to meet anyone who got it to work.
Under-the-hood, you are still using the bloated Windows kernel, a now 30-year-old file system which was flawed to begin with (NTFS) or something newish thatās closely related to it, and youāre facing the same exhausting privacy violations that MS has been in hot water for; except you get to do it with bash instead.
I tried it on my laptop that had Windows 11 pre-installed, and I cannot imagine how theyāre attracting anyone other than middle management and freshmen boot camp engineers with it. Apparently they found out that Ubuntu could be side-loaded in two minutes and panicked or something.
Thanks. Yeah, Iāve heard about WSL2 (as if the first implementation shouldnāt have also been the last one). But many probably refer to both as WSL without version number.
Sure thing.