I’m more surprised that it wasn’t already on WSL, WSL has been out for /awhile/ now. I used to use it for cross platform development before I moved my gaming rig over to Debian
Does this really expand to Windows users? As a non-technical user, this is the first I’ve heard of WSL and I’m sure I’m not alone.
As a technical user, I think of WSL as almost exclusively for technical users. It’s not really intended to enable normal users to run Linux programs, and more as an excuse to convince companies to keep developing on Windows. If the devs say “we need to write backend code for Linux servers, so we need our dev machines to run Linux” then management sets them up with linux, while the rest of the company uses windows. But if MSFT says “hey look, you can develop code for Linux in windows, and you can even deploy it in windows on our azure servers” then management says “great, everyone can use windows” and keeps buying those licences.
I think WSL is pretty much a developer thing in reality
That makes sense. I definitely could see a use case for developers, but I don’t see many average pc users having a need for or even being aware of this service.
It does more to make windows accessable to Linux users.
And really speeds up Java compilation.
I swear WSL already had Arch.
The name of that thing is so confusing. It’s an alternative to wine, right?
It’s a Windows Subsystem that is responsible For (Running) Linux. Yes, everyone thinks it should have been called Linux Subsystem for Windows.
Nope, it uses the MS hypervisor to run a VM of Linux with a deep filesystem and networking integration
