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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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In my experience, if you need to do Linux kind of things on a Windows computer, it’s far less glitchy, buggy and laden with weird caveats and edge cases than the alternatives (like Cygwin and Git Bash).

To be fair, I’ve never used it. But I’ve been the guy people come to when shit doesn’t work. Switching from Cygwin or Git Bash to WSL frequently fixes issues.

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