• @Freesoftwareenjoyer@lemmy.world
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    5 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@lemmy.world
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        55 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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          45 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.

      • 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.

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          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

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      25 months ago

      wsl is good for when ure forced to use windows