What if... WSL is a gateway drug to Arch?
Don't do drugs, kids!
this post was submitted on 20 May 2025
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Yea..... But I have 3 Linux VMs running in Hyper-V. That counts for something right?
It is honestly better
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.
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WSL is just a chroot running under Windows.
How do we feel about cygwin users, fellow linux hivemind drones?
It is a old code sir but it still checks out
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Uh acktually I'm a Kali user
-Uses Kali WSL port
Kali user
found the problem
"WSL"?
Windows subsystem for linux.
Its basically a microsoft linux kernel, running in a hypervisor, with a linux distro built on top. The subsystem also supports xserver and wayland too
Windows Subsystem for Linux
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Why not just use both?
Install Windows in a VM on a Linux distro and use WSL there?
Wsl runs on hyper-v. I don't think you can use it in a VM
Aww, cry harder.
I started using Linux when it was Redhat, in the 1990s, and it came on a bunch of CDs.
And I use WSL in addition to Debian, Raspbian, and Ubuntu.
Knock this tribal bullshit off.
I started with Slackware. It came on floppies.
Now move to the back of the line youngster.
I'll never forget the first time I finally got Linux 0.1 to boot on my abacus.
Aww, cry harder.
Some real pleasant people here.
Yeah, why would they post something like this to the community for serious takes about Linux?
CDβs?! Ooh La La Mister Fancy French man with the digital media! Back in our day linux came on a plastic 45 inside Fruity Pebbles cereal and it had loose crusty sugar in the grooves that introduced errors in X that meant the screen scrolled like an out-of-whack tv and you had to wait for the prompt to roll by so you could try another resolution that would core dump and spit you back to the A:\ drive and eject the disc into your shins like a frisbee! And thatβs the way we liked it!
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Itβs so true though
I even look at myself that way whenever I use wsl on my gaming box to hop onto another system. I disgust myself.