When using WSL, be sure to not mention anything about that when reporting bugs because that'll just confuse the issue for the maintainers. They like having that casually mentioned about 20 messages into the troubleshooting process.

I don't think anyone is a "wsl user" so much as they've found themselves in a position where the lowest friction solution is utilizing wsl for a given situation.

Around 2019, even up until like 2022 if you wanted to run docker in windows, that was how to do it.

Look what they have to do to mimic a fraction of our power

WSL is cool when you first use it then you realize it actually kind of sucks

This sort of elitism really hurts adoption

When someone ask for help with a Linux issue: 🤩

It's a wsl bug: 🤭

Me looking disgusted at myself in the mirror, for I am doomed towards eternal Microsoft-dependency at work.

Still better than cygwin

Most WSL users I know all run Linux at home; WSL is the best they can get at work.

Small blessings. Seeing a WSL user means that some dev out there didn't have to implement Windows support.

fuck it

run windows in a virtual machine in Linux, then run wsl within it.

Yea..... But I have 3 Linux VMs running in Hyper-V. That counts for something right?

it's a unix system on top of a windows system; i know this!

I tried to get the *arr stack running on it at one point, using Docker.

Do not do this. Just install the Windows apps. Yes, it's a mess. Yes, they work.

Born to Gentoo+i3, forced (by work) to WSL

Windows users when they see a wine user???

I'm glad wsl exists so I don't have to bother with windows and people can still run my programs.

I still don't know what WSL is for.

Uh acktually I'm a Kali user

-Uses Kali WSL port

How do we feel about cygwin users, fellow linux hivemind drones?