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by pak9rabid 194 days ago
Yes, a VM with extremely tight integration with the Windows environment to make things that would otherwise require lots of time to setup a breeze. I use it as my daily driver for dev work (at work, since we're required to use Windows :( ) and to be honest it's quite pleasant most of the time.
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scuff3d 193 days ago
I usually work in a VM hosted by my company. But the performance is really starting to irritate me. Been considering switching to WSL2, but last time I checked all they supported was Debian based distros, and we do all our work on RHEL8. I don't think it would matter much but it's still annoying working on an entirely different setup from the rest of the team.

How is the graphical app support these days?

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spockz 193 days ago
You can create your own images: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/build-custom-d...

Or more step by step: https://gist.github.com/artman41/858450e2c29b239d8692213b684...

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pod_krad 190 days ago
They support Oracle Linux. It is almost the same as RHEL.
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stackedinserter 193 days ago
How is it "tight" when even `ps` or `top` show VM processes instead of OS ones? Could you give an example of functionality that can't be done with `docker run -it ubuntu`?

I used it for a little bit (got Windows laptop, thought maybe I'll switch but no), and just hated that split brain workspace.

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