- WSL2 will not have problems like that, and I believe they were long fixed in WSL1.
- I love Go but the Go runtime is a pretty big snowflake, its one of the few non-libc users of the Linux syscall interface . Also, I think they fixed it on the Go side as well, for good measure, though I could be wrong.
The important point is, don't "give me Linux" that then can't cover the common trendy tech projects. If it doesn't work, it's not Real Linux, and I ain't got time for that.
<ms-rant> Plus, Microsoft- who needs em? Not a pleasant daily driver. My entire family already accidentally "upgraded" to windows 11. Ever since, they've fallen into a perpetual zombie-like state of confusion with regard to their windows computers and what is happening on them. What is good, better, or worse? *shrug*
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I'd much rather cast the MS bits off to a lowly second-class Hypervised Cassowary VM.
WSL2 does give you the real Linux kernel, if you want to have Windows with the real-deal Linux kernel. You’ll miss some things inherent to using a VM, but that’s probably the same for any comparable solution.
That said, I’m certainly not trying to convince anyone to use Windows. By all means, run Linux as your desktop if you want to. I do.
You're ranting about a set of problems that don't exist in WSL2. I don't like Microsoft as much as this next person but please don't strawman things as a target for a rant, which really shouldn't belong here anyway.
I can make money on either. Making money is not the problem here. But if you don’t feel a tinge of misery every time Windows Update “accidentally” makes Edge the default browser and you have to jump through dark patterns to disable it, every time start search lags because it’s contacting Bing even though you just want to launch calc.exe, every time you reinstall and Candy Crush is sitting there waiting for you, or every time you accidentally connect to WiFi during windows setup only to forget that it won’t let you set up a local account if you do, then we can’t be friends.
If it doesn’t feel like I control my computer, it doesn’t matter how polished the UI looks or how fast the games run. It’s a non-starter.
I am not sure why but it never happened to me (stealing my default browser). As for search - When I type "c" I immediately see Chrome icon and continuing typing "a" show calc. No delays, everything is instant.
I admit that if I saw web results instead of local apps I'd be mad. But I have gobbles of Windows installations at my house and none of those have this problem, starting from that tiny compute stick hooked up to a large TV that my grandson uses to watch Netflix.
- I love Go but the Go runtime is a pretty big snowflake, its one of the few non-libc users of the Linux syscall interface . Also, I think they fixed it on the Go side as well, for good measure, though I could be wrong.