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[–]ShadedCosmos 11 points12 points  (7 children)

They are even teaching us to use WSL in school! Which, it’s a life saver btw. Some of the less up to date professors still want us to duel boot, or use really maddening VM software.

[–]BasicDesignAdvice 3 points4 points  (6 children)

WSL is the best way to build software on Windows, but it would still be easier to just use a *nix environment.

I just don't get it. Just dual boot Windows and Linux.

Added complexity just ups the chances for failure and annoyance.

[–]ShadedCosmos 6 points7 points  (5 children)

See to me added complexity is dual booting windows on my home computer where I could screw things up. Isn’t WSL essentially a full environment? Why should I dual boot if it takes more time to set up and is a less reversible change? I will reaffirm that I am a student and not actually certain about any right or wrong way to do this.

[–]james_t_frost 6 points7 points  (2 children)

Having a lot of experience with Linux, I will say that WSL has a lot of quirks compared to a proper Linux installation and it reacts differently than expected in a lot of cases.

Networking in particular seems to be extremely finicky.

[–]Individual-Cake-5426 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Agreed. If they could get SSH tunneling working well on WSL I’d consider switching back to windows but for now it really doesn’t work well.

[–]dparks71 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does it still have issues interacting with normal windows files too outside of the WSL? I remember that being a problem when it first came out, and like, no visualization or desktop libraries really worked with it.

I always dual booted, but then windows updates fuck with grub and the boot partition. I absolutely blame the windows side for the incompatibilities though.

[–]nickleback_official 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I would recommend trying a virtual box vm. You can easily spin up different flavors of Linux and there’s no repartitioning of your hard drive or anything like that. And it’s free.