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Is the Windows Subsystem for Linux worth it?

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I’ve had a pretty poor experience with it myself, so I wanna see what the Linux community thinks about this.

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Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldOP
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I guess that’s a bonus.

But being forced to use a terminal to do anything is kinda hard to deal with if you’re not a developer. I’m probably guessing this didn’t bother you that much.

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I prefer the terminal and have tools I like to use that are CLI only.

Edit: and Linux only.

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Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldOP
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Good to know.

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Euphoma@lemmy.ml
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What are you trying to do on WSL? I think the whole point of WSL originally was to have a linux terminal on Windows, before they added graphics in WSL 2.

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I was trying to run applications on it, similar to their Windows Subsystem for Android that they released as an update to Windows 11. I have to say, the latter is significantly easier to deal with imo.

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