I switched to Windows 18 months ago and continue to be happy. Only complaint is devs gratuitously ignoring windows support.
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Can you give an examples of WSL workarounds required? I thought it'd be largely POSIX compliant, which is a reasonable target IMO
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WSL shouldn't be targeting POSIX per se - it should be targeting Linux. Workarounds for stuff that works on Linux proper are bugs in WSL.
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Except that people do workarounds en masse for POSIX inconsistencies in OSX. You can say "not my problem", or you can do what pepole ...
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do in OSX and slap a bandaid on it while the upstream bug gets addressed. At least WSL's "radar" is Github Issues.
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OSX doesn't have the explicit goal of targeting full compatibility with someone else though. WSL bugs == SmartOS LX Zone bugs == bugs.
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Luckily, the WSL team is super receptive to cases which prove different (as the LX team is), and get them fixed and released quickly.
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OSX claims to be a "certified Unix" but has bugs. But this is a deflection. Regardless, pragmatics say we should work around bugs.
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Given the goal of WSL it should be treated the same way as LX Zones - requires special workarounds show a bug in the system not the app.
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