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by Tsarbomb 1366 days ago
I think most people understand why the WSL2 approach eventually won out, and its saved my bacon more times than I can count when I had to demo something and it breaks on my Mac only for me to quickly switch to "real" linux on my personal windows machine running WSL2.

However, with WSL1, implementing the Linux ABI was such a wicked flex.
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yjftsjthsd-h 1366 days ago
> when I had to demo something and it breaks on my Mac only for me to quickly switch to "real" linux on my personal windows machine running WSL2.

How's that any different than running a virtual machine on your Mac with a real Linux in it?

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Tsarbomb 1366 days ago
Seamless mounting, launching code editors in Windows from Linux, issuing docker commands in the Linux OS while the docker engine and its mounts are hosted on Windows.

Doing things with something like Vagrant on Mac sometimes cuts it, sometimes doesn't. Either way, if I'm not shelling out money I could be stuck using a subpar solution like VirtualBox.

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NelsonMinar 1366 days ago
Seconding that. WSL1 is an impressive achievement. I use WSL every day and switched to WSL2 a long while back but I still kinda wish WSL1 were the way forward.
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