[Affric]

Perhaps I should have put a larger explanation around it but I am mocking neither sureglymop nor BrandonM but we can still learn lessons from hindsight.

Sure, it’s trivial to set the switch in BIOS for virtualisation, and download a couple of libraries but people like computers doing things for us, we like abstractions even if they sacrifice flexibility because they facilitate whatever the real world application we are attempting.

I think power users of any technology will generally overvalue things that 80% to 95% of the user base simply don’t care about.

I admit that having touched Windows twice in the last 5 years I wouldn’t know but I would be willing to wager that WSL has very few drawbacks or shortcomings in the minds of most of its users.

[frollogaston]

Also sometimes the harder approach is also not as capable as some people make it out to be, and there are some unsolved caveats.