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[–] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Run Linux stuff on Windows.

A big use case is development with Docker containers.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Thanks - I can kind of see that, as docker on windows is majorly broken. I think I'd just run it in a linux vm, as I do with most of my developing, but I can see some might not want that overhead.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's the best bit about WSL (at least, version 2) is that it is a VM running a full version of Linux using Microsoft Hypervisor. There's a bunch of drivers included that allow Windows and Linux to share filesystems and if you run Wayland/X apps in Linux they run on the Windows desktop.

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