On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 07:53:31PM -0500, Paul King via talk wrote:
Anyone have experiences with these weird versions of Linux running on Windows? I would like to hear about it. Any experience with how it would look with a dual monitor?
The real payoff is supposed to come Real Soon Now -- probably April:in WSL 2, the Linux kernel itself will receive system calls, running on a trimmed down version of the Hyper-V hypervisor, hosting files on a virtual ext4 disk. It will be sort of like running VirtualBox, but outside the Box. Right now there is a layer that translates kernel calls into Windows calls. It works surprisingly well. I have been running Debian-on-Windows (Win10 Pro) for a few months now. It doesn't run X11. There are complicated workarounds for this, but since I do most of my work at the console, it doesn't bother me. YMMV. Otherwise apt-get works as you'd expect, and so far everything runs very smoothly; WSL 1 uses an older, conservative version of Debian stable, and I haven't been tempted to run testing. (Well, okay, I've been tempted, but so far I haven't given in.) Have WSL take over the whole screen and it's very much like running Debian from the console normally. It's pretty easy to share files between WSL and Windows: the normal windows drive is automagically mounted at /mnt/c/. Then you just read/write to it. On the whole the integration is rather good. I haven't tried pushing the limits, mostly because I haven't needed to. Windows 10 Pro seems to be one of the occasional "solid" releases of Windows -- I haven't had it crash on me yet, or even misbehave, and things work more or less as you'd expect. However, I don't really know anything about Windows; this is the first time I've even tried it since Win 3.1, so I'm no expert. WSL 1 runs fine (in terminal/console mode) on a second monitor. It's easy and seamless to go from the Linux environment to Windows, and vice-versa. -- Peter King peter.king@utoronto.ca Department of Philosophy 170 St. George Street #521 The University of Toronto (416)-946-3170 ofc Toronto, ON M5R 2M8 CANADA http://individual.utoronto.ca/pking/ ========================================================================= GPG keyID 0x7587EC42 (2B14 A355 46BC 2A16 D0BC 36F5 1FE6 D32A 7587 EC42) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 7587EC42