Honestly I'd love for more Linux-only apps to be available on Windows, so, when I'm forced to use it, I can still get the same awesome libre apps I'm enjoying on Linux.
Despite that, I still haven't had the balls to open a single issue anywhere to support Windows 👀
Real winners download the source code and compile it from scratch to flex on proprietary software users
it requires admin permissions... and on the only place where i'm forced to use windows i don't have those
Probably shouldn't have access to that either if your IT department is doing a good job.
Idk, mb some system-ish stuff? Otherwise it should work ~fine since wsl[2] is just a VM and not like a piece of art like wine
I'll try again some time to check, but last time I had trouble with some apps installed on openSUSE WSL, like some theming issues and some apps not opening (probably relying on system components as you say)
There’s probably some random config file on a forum post 18 years old where half the images don’t load cause the hosting service they used for image went down
WSL is really easy to setup by now. In the beginning it was really terrible.
Now all you need to do (if you are fine with Ubuntu) is open CMD with admin rights and input wsl --install.
If you want another distro, it's wsl -l -o to check the available distros and wsl --install -d to install it.
More documentation here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install
as long as you don't try to pass it any flags, that is. M$ defined ls etc. as straight aliases to the equivalent PowerShell commands that have their own flag system, so if you ls -l it will puke
A lot of terminal apps tend to skip windows, ungoogled chromium doesn’t have a official windows release
A lot of open source projects do have windows versions, and the big projects that come to mind like blender or Firefox definitely do… but there’s a a lot of little pieces of software that don’t. One example that comes to mind for me is the Dino XMPP client… Linux only for now, unfortunately!
I have no idea as I’ve never been a windows user, haha. Dino is one of the examples I know about though, because I know I can’t recommend it to windows users.
WSL is Windows Subsystem for Linux. It allows you to use Linux from within Linux. Though there's probably some major thing I'm missing which makes it fundamentally different from just running a VM.
Emacs is a rough experience for one.
A lot of ML stuff does not, e.g. Microsoft DeepSpeed.
Lots and lots of CLI programs as well.
Guitarix was one of those for me. I know there are better virtual amps on windows but I quite enjoyed guitarix for its open and free nature. Plus audio routing on windows is a nightmare.
There was a time when the Freezer devs didn't make a windows version of some updates, and their solution was to use it via WSL. So I never used it again.
Windows users complaining that a Linux (or at a stretch, even Mac) app doesn't have a Windows version.
Yup. I work in media, and there are a lot of media programs that are Mac exclusive. Even worse, Apple insists on breaking lots of them with every update. So at work, we always have to decline updates for a week or two until all of our programs have a chance to update and unfuck everything Apple did.
The worst case was when Apple came out with the M1 Mac’s. One of our programs took almost a year and a half to finally get updated to work on M1 processors. And of course, this was right around the time that we were looking into upgrading our Macs, because our existing ones were starting to show their age. So we just had to sit on our hands (and put the funding towards something else) until the mission-critical programs we needed all got their proper updates.
A week or two lol... I work for a tech company and we're usually 6 months delayed on macos updates because of the mountain of IT malware they have to validate and make work together for every release.
I remember having issues with Wireshark on Windows since it doesn't include a lot of libs that it can use to monitor traffic. Does that count on the list?
People telling you "I would like to use a Mac so much but I need Windows". Well fuck you Tiffany I dont care
