@fanciestbanana4653
I've had cold feet for a while when it came to WSL, I always prefered dual booting. But now I work for a big company that locks down their PC (can't even write to USB sticks) and WSL has been a savior. It's way more convinient than using a VM and I managed to install podman to run containers.
@BrunoMateusvvp
Been using wsl for a few years already, and it completely boosted my development. Can't ditch windows because of company, but actually I don't really even want to. It gives me the best of both worlds. Awesome for development, and also awesome for productivity in the office. Double win.
@Darkl0ud_Productions
What I really want is the opposite... Give me Linux with "flawless" WINE.
@hayax
"I Coded with WSL2 for a Week" > Half of the video is unrelated. I didn't come here for a history lesson
@xicra3521
I am so thankful for you presenting this to me, I stopped using Linux completely for about a year because of problems with xorg and some hardware incompatibilities but now I can go back to developing for fun while taking breaks for gaming or doing school work on Office.
@danielturnquist68
I was able to get by on WSL almost all the way through college, which was great! However, in my operating systems class we started learning about inter process communication and unfortunately WSL doesn't support some of that stuff so I had to dual boot. I can't quite kick Windows though because warzone
@bobdouglass8010
I just started using WSL2 for real development this past weekend, primarily with the vscode extension. Yes! Yes, this works and it works well. I know it's just a micro-VM under the hood but it's seamless and I never thought about it. I'm currently trying to get Flutter and Android Virtual Devices to work in wsl. It's supposed to be possible as of a few weeks ago
@JustinWellsDev
I'm primarily an iOS developer, although have a lot of linux experience with development. I recently built a new PC, installed windows (due to some program limitations with linux) and setup a simple bashrc script where if I type "windows" it basically will cd into my windows user directory, and if I type "linux" it puts me right back to my main wsl linux directory. It's been so nice so far
@konamimanMSX
I work at Automattic, more precisely in the WooCommerce team. The recommended machine for work there is a Mac, but I have a strong preference for Windows (it's the OS with the best overall user experience in my opinion). I use WSL2 to hold the code and to run Git commands, configuration and build scripts, the unit tests and the local web server for testing; so for pretty much everything except editing code (I use PHPStorm running on Windows for that, accessing the WSL filesystem via network share; occasionally I use VSCode with the native WSL integration as well). I've been doing that for more than one year now and it's absolutely awesome. I can say that WSL2 saved my (work) life.
@caspera3193
WSL took care of some line ending mess that I was facing on my job. My colleagues use MacBooks so there were some line ending inconsistency issues when I opened their projects on Windows. It works fine in my opinion as long as you avoid /mnt at all costs. I eventually ended up switching to Endeavour OS, which is an Arch-based Linux distro. Cause I like Linux better for programming. WSL can be an accessible and gentle way to learn about Linux.
@natalirivero1374
I Love WSL, use it daily and it's awesome!
@tylerd4173
Fantastic video. You're really on a roll with your return! Everything just on point. Impressed with how seamless WSL looks now.
@miguelguthridge
I love Linux but expecting my students to switch to it is just too much of an ask - WSL has been absolutely awesome for letting them get used to the way Linux works under the hood without having to go too far out of their comfort zone when they're already extending themselves so much with the course content.
@sivuyilemagutywa5286
Its thanks to WSL that I moved to Linux full-time, to be fair it was WSL1, at that time I had problems when building my project, it too so long and the other issue was Windows becoming slower and running docker in WSL1 and Windows was a nightmare for my low spec pc at that time, when I need to use Windows I dual boot, I only use Windows maybe once or twice a year. WSL is a great project, maybe in future Windows will become another linux distro.
@jakeschlottag
Yess!!!!! About time you try it out!
@brainstormsurge154
When there's a LSW (Linux Subsystem for Windows) as the opposite to WSL to pretty much pipe Windows for gaming at near native speeds while bypassing all the bloat then I'll believe them.
@Psicoeducazione
I happily switched from mac + ipad to a Surface pro 8 for everything from video editing, adobe software, note taking to programming (python, django, js) thanks to WSL. As far as device purchasing is concerned, it is the best choice I've ever made.
@codeSTACKr
😂 I love it!
@codeman99-dev
WSL2 is freaking great. Stay on the company provided hardware and software, while still getting all the benefits of Linux! I've also done nearly 100% of my professional work in a VM anyway. For the same reasons. WSL2 being so seamless, plus vscode, and windows terminal... just freaking awesome. I love being able to run linux stuff and windows stuff at the same time, and get great support for both! Plus, no "capture key" to remember.
@michaelulloa12