I jumped ship from Windows a couple of years ago after having used it since the early 90's. One of the primary reasons was how much I had to fight with WSL2 in my day-to-day work. But now it's becoming even more apparent that Microsoft does not care about its operating system. I don't even know what they could do to get me back. Trust continues to be a huge problem in the AI era of Microsoft.

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throwa356262 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

WSL has been god send for corporate employees who get a windows laptop but need to do real work.

But everyone knows that performance of WSL is nowhere near native linux on the same machine.

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simonjgreen a few seconds ago | parent | next [-]

Delightful way to write off an enormous cohort of people and huge variety of work.

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pjmlp 5 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Some of us also do real work on Windows, ask Valve.

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zeryx 18 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Honestly the performance hit of WSl even being alive and running in the background of my XPS was so bad I just ssh into a workstation and do everything on there instead. Trying to get windows to just be usable is such a massive pain in the ass.

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secondcoming 12 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Luckily I'm allowed use Hyper-V for Linux work

	▲	pjmlp 5 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Guess where WSL runs on?

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chris_money202 33 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Did you work out of /mnt/c?

	▲	DiabloD3 24 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I suspect they did. 100% of cases where people complain WSL2 was slow and I helped debug was this specific incorrect usage.

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shevy-java an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

For me Win11 was the final stop.

I still use Win10 for a few things, including testing stuff works there too, via java. I switched to Linux in 2004 or so, though.