[soylentnewsorg]

Every person I know who dual-booted or ran *nix in a vm has now switched over to WSL, including myself. It works ok, I got a korn shell, I can access all the windows data.

This move killed cygwin and a lot of dual-boot linux installs within a year of availability.

here's the thing though - everyone i know just needs the basic korn shell and basic unix like features for their laptop. no one is writing apps targeting wsl, no one's running it on a server. the features we use wsl for have been the same since 1988, and we're not interested in the new ones.

[pjmlp]

Exactly because of this kind of experience, and my own at the time, I deeply believe if Microsoft had been half as serious with Windows NT POSIX compatilitly as they are now with WSL, Linux would never had taken off.

I got into Slackware Linux, as means to do university work at home, and when I started working it was Windows NT, Aix, HP-UX and Solaris. We had a couple of Linux based servers but they were used as toys, like smuggling a couple of networked games into the office.