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Obligatory Joke

Posted Jan 5, 2025 13:09 UTC (Sun) by butlerm (subscriber, #13312)
In reply to: Obligatory Joke by gmprice
Parent article: Some things to expect in 2025

I hope Microsoft brings back WSL1 or lets someone else do so. Better support for Cygwin would be great too. The original WSL in some ways is better, cleaner, and simpler for software that doesn't need things like support for direct GPU integration, Wayland, and Vulkan, to name a few.

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Posted Jan 5, 2025 14:01 UTC (Sun) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (2 responses)

Except for all the subtle ways that it was *not* actually Linux. We basically ended up punting on issues filed against it for some projects because the answers inevitably boiled down to "well, Microsoft didn't implement some subtlety correctly, go complain to them".

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Posted Jan 5, 2025 14:55 UTC (Sun) by butlerm (subscriber, #13312) [Link] (1 responses)

In cases like that Microsoft should release the necessary parts under an appropriate open source license and let someone else do it.

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Posted Jan 6, 2025 0:15 UTC (Mon) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

I mean, sure, but I'd rather do something useful with my time than wait for the heat death of the universe. Until then, WSL1 bugs go in the "if you can't reproduce it on a real Linux, go talk to Microsoft" bucket.