• @Freesoftwareenjoyer
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    4 months ago

    I think they want to compete with GNU/Linux and attract its users. They made WSL for probably the same reason. They even have a terminal now that almost doesn’t suck.

      • @SauceFlexr
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        54 months ago

        Windows terminal is now my preferred terminal. I use it on a daily basis at work, and adding in WSL just makes things easier in general for Windows. My google search history is no longer Powershell eqicalent for X in linux.

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          34 months ago

          Well I’m glad it works for you. Also I don’t think it runs under wine so you are stuck on Windows.

      • @Freesoftwareenjoyer
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        24 months ago

        Yeah, when I used it, every command had like a second of delay. It was also buggy. But it has tabs and you can even split the window into multiple panes. So big improvement over cmd.

        • @BenPranklin
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          4 months ago

          How long ago did you try it? I gave the first iteration of wsl a chance and had the same experience, it was super slow especially for things like ls. Its a lot better since wsl2. Probably 90% or more the performance of bare metal install of linux

          • @Freesoftwareenjoyer
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            14 months ago

            I used it last year on Windows 10 (I was forced to use Windows by my employer). I didn’t use it with WSL, just with Git Bash.

            • @BenPranklin
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              14 months ago

              Also forced to use windows for work. That wasn’t the windows terminal program being slow, that was git bash.

    • darcy
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      14 months ago

      wsl is good for when ure forced to use windows