• BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one
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      Debian WSL has been legit more stable for me than running it as the primary OS. Dunno what to tell you, because you can’t change my past experience with what I have been dealing with for the past two decades using Linux as my daily driver being a broke student.

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        2 days ago

        Dealing with Linux for 2 decades doesn’t make you and expert in modern Linux. It just makes you old.

        Even leaving Linux for a few years means that you get behind. I had to explain to a coworker what Wayland was because he hasn’t used Linux in years.

        If WSL works for you that’s great but here are the issues I’ve had

        • weird networking issues where Windows can access Linux but Linux can not access Windows without lots of work.

        • any advanced networking like VPN’s will not work

        • It is slow and requires working virtualization

        • Filesystem sharing is not as easy as I would like

        • It is a bit finicky to get working and requires a bunch of disk space and resources.

        Meanwhile native Linux doesn’t have these issues and git bash/cygwin is almost native in the sense that it has little overhead. Architectural perspective Cygwin is a lot like Wine. It just translates Linux calls to Windows ones.

        If you need Windows I would run it in a VM under Linux as that’s going to be a much better experience.

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          Without doxxing myself, I promise you I know more about linux than you do and I’m not saying windows is better, you silly fuck, I am saying it’s more stable. I don’t even recommend using either as a server when BSD is better at stability than both OS combined.