I have to strongly disagree with you. I’ve used WSL 2 with VSCode, and I experienced waaaaaaaay more weird broken shit than I ever have running Linux. And even if it weren’t for that, it’s still not at all worth it IMO because using WSL 2 means every interaction I have with my development environment has to go through a Linux-to-Windows translation layer. I will never use Windows again for anything beyond testing unless I’m forced to.
I have to agree with the commenter above, WSL2 is decent even if you run something uncanny like NixOS. I’ve had it as my primary dev environment for a number of years and it’s alright. I am comfortable with a terminal, though, and the only frontends into it I use are neovide and VSCode.
I have to strongly disagree with you. I’ve used WSL 2 with VSCode, and I experienced waaaaaaaay more weird broken shit than I ever have running Linux. And even if it weren’t for that, it’s still not at all worth it IMO because using WSL 2 means every interaction I have with my development environment has to go through a Linux-to-Windows translation layer. I will never use Windows again for anything beyond testing unless I’m forced to.
🤷 That wasn’t my experience, and I used it as my primary dev environment for four years.
It doesn’t go through a translation layer, though. WSL 2 has a whole separate kernel. You can even use GUI apps with Wayland.
I have to agree with the commenter above, WSL2 is decent even if you run something uncanny like NixOS. I’ve had it as my primary dev environment for a number of years and it’s alright. I am comfortable with a terminal, though, and the only frontends into it I use are neovide and VSCode.