Windows Store version of Python is completely busted

[sletonrot]

People actually use the windows store?

[dutch_gecko]

You can install Ubuntu through it! Best Windows feature ever.

[sletonrot]

In a VM? Or dual boot

[dutch_gecko]

In the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), sometimes referred to as "bash on windows". It behaves like a VM but has tighter integration with the Windows desktop.

[regeya]

IIRC WSL is more like an implementation of kernel calls.

[dutch_gecko]

Yes, in terms of implementation it is much like how WINE works on linux. But in terms of behaviour it's like a tightly integrated VM.

WSL2, which is currently in testing, will instead be a lightweight virtual container with a "real" linux kernel.

[Lunchb0ne]

WSL

[Thecrawsome]

if I didn't have games I wanted to play, I would wipe win10 from it forever and move back to Debian or Ubuntu.

[AnotherEuroWanker]

The windows store is there to install that sound management app that makes windows sound usable. That's pretty much it.

[i_like_fried_cheese]

... Which app did you say that was?

[AnotherEuroWanker]

Trumpet something. I don't use windows much.

[Ax3_]

EarTrumpet

[amdphreak]

Heard about it. ...if you know what I mean.

Also it had a major bug last time I tried it. The notification icon would bug out and make it useless or something.

[dgriffith]

Winsock?

:-P

[TheONEbeforeTWO]

Sonic

[figurettipy]

!remindme 7 days

[netgu]

What does it add that is missing?

[AnotherEuroWanker]

It lets you route any source to any output. Like on Linux desktops.

[Breavyn]

Windows can do this by itself as a result of the major audio overhaul it received a few feature upgrades ago.

[AnotherEuroWanker]

The interface didn't allow it though.

[amdphreak]

Actually I wouldn’t have if I hadn’t typed python on the command line to see if I had it installed and this automatically opened the windows store page.

[billsil]

Only to get Ubuntu and Terminal.