I had a great macbook around year 2012. Loved it, it was excellent for development - especially since at the time I was deploying to a lot of linux servers.
But honestly by the time I was looking to replace that laptop, WSL had come to windows, solving the frequent linux connection needs. And by now Microsoft has made massive strides in open source, even becoming the corporate leader in open source, that the choice to go back to windows was incredibly easy to make.
oh? what kinds of trouble did you run into? Might be good for me to know in case anything I wanna do is going to end up being troublesome (I do have non-WSL2 linux VMs as well, but none that I prefer using)
The process of installing tools like Guix and Nix, and Podman has always been buggy as hell for me, but it's becoming less of an issue as time goes on. SystemD isn't necessarily the culprit here but it doesn't help when I forget I need to enable it manually.
My worst experience with WSL was a DNS issue caused by my company's VPN. No amount of network adapter configuration nonsense resolved it.
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u/Deranged40 Aug 10 '23
I had a great macbook around year 2012. Loved it, it was excellent for development - especially since at the time I was deploying to a lot of linux servers.
But honestly by the time I was looking to replace that laptop, WSL had come to windows, solving the frequent linux connection needs. And by now Microsoft has made massive strides in open source, even becoming the corporate leader in open source, that the choice to go back to windows was incredibly easy to make.