[hu3]

For Windows a quick win is to install VMware Workstation Pro (which is free) and install Ubuntu 24.04 LTS as a VM.

Broadcom bought VMware then released Workstation Pro for free and I don't think they kept the download link but you can get from TechPowerUp:

https://www.techpowerup.com/download/vmware-workstation-pro/

You can then let LLMs on YOLO mode inside it.

[dragonwriter]

What is the advantage of using VMware Workstation Pro for this as opposed to using WSL2?

[TheTaytay]

I think it has default access to your c drive via a mount, for one. You could add layers/sandboxes, but it’s not isolated.

[tracker1]

Funny, but I wrote some environment initialization and setup scripts that you just unzip to a new dev desktop, and run the first powershell script, and it will work through (have to reboot after a couple installs), but it goes through, then once WSL is up, it'll rely on the /mnt/c/ paths to run bash scripts to initialize the wsl environment too... was pretty handy.

[dragonwriter]

Yeah, I do most Linux stuff on Windows in containers using podman leveraging WSL2, but that's a good point.

[bt1a]

I wouldn't put it past Opus 4.5 in yolo mode to vm escape if it felt like it haha

[UltraSane]

Stronger isolation and choice of OS

[Tossrock]

Windows has the WSL for native Linux vms, these days (and also the past ~decade)

[hu3]

I can rm -rf Windows files from WSL2. And so can LLMs.

Meanwhile a VM isolates by default.

[jassmith87]

You can turn all the interop and mounting of the windows FS with ease. I run claude in yolo mode using this exact setup. Just role out a new WSL env for each claude I want yoloing and away it goes. I suppose we could try to theorize how this is still dangerous buts its getting into extremely silly territory.

[hu3]

That's great to know! And important to clarify because by default WSL has access to all disks.