What is the advantage of using VMware Workstation Pro for this as opposed to using WSL2?

TheTaytay 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I think it has default access to your c drive via a mount, for one. You could add layers/sandboxes, but it’s not isolated.

	▲	tracker1 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Funny, but I wrote some environment initialization and setup scripts that you just unzip to a new dev desktop, and run the first powershell script, and it will work through (have to reboot after a couple installs), but it goes through, then once WSL is up, it'll rely on the /mnt/c/ paths to run bash scripts to initialize the wsl environment too... was pretty handy.
	▲	dragonwriter 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Yeah, I do most Linux stuff on Windows in containers using podman leveraging WSL2, but that's a good point.
	▲	bt1a 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I wouldn't put it past Opus 4.5 in yolo mode to vm escape if it felt like it haha

UltraSane 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Stronger isolation and choice of OS