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Microsoft's 'Windows Subsystem For Linux' Finally Leaves Beta (microsoft.com)
An anonymous reader quotes Microsoft's Developer blog:
Early adopters on the Windows Insider program will notice that Windows Subsystem for Linux is no longer marked as a beta feature as of Insider build 16251. This will be great news for those who've held-back from employing WSL as a mainline toolset: You'll now be able to leverage WSL as a day-to-day developer toolset, and become ever more productive when building, testing, deploying, and managing your apps and systems on Windows 10... What will change is that you will gain the added advantage of being able to file issues on WSL and its Windows tooling via our normal support mechanisms if you want/need to follow a more formal issue resolution process. You can also provide feedback via Windows 10 Feedback Hub app, which delivers feedback directly to the team.
Microsoft points out that distro-publishers are still responsible for supporting and fixing the internals of their distros -- and they have no plans to support X/GUI apps or desktops. And of course, Linux files are not currently accessible from Windows -- though Microsoft says they're working on a fix.
Microsoft points out that distro-publishers are still responsible for supporting and fixing the internals of their distros -- and they have no plans to support X/GUI apps or desktops. And of course, Linux files are not currently accessible from Windows -- though Microsoft says they're working on a fix.
Now that this is available I'm seriously considering moving back to Windows, after many years of using Linux. I've found that my Linux experience has just been getting worse and worse. Systemd has caused me nothing but headaches. GNOME 3 ruined GNOME, my favorite desktop environment. I still sometimes have problems with PulseAudio. Most of the time I'm using Chrome or VS Code, both of which work on Windows.
Linux used to be worth using back when it was way more stable and reliable than Windows. But those days are long gone. I don't want to have to use a niche distro like Slackware, or Gentoo, or worse, Devuan, just to get rid of the shitty systemd experience. I don't want to have to install MATE just to get a usable desktop environment. I don't want to have to fight with graphics drivers.
If Windows can give me a Linux-compatible command line experience, and if it lets me run Chrome and VS Code, then I'm all set. I don't need Linux. In fact, I'd welcome being able to use a system that's fast, that's responsive, and that just works.