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Is the Windows Subsystem for Linux worth it? (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by Resol@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I've had a pretty poor experience with it myself, so I wanna see what the Linux community thinks about this.

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[–] wmassingham@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Same. Well, not forced, but using Linux would just make everything more difficult. I like being able to drop to a shell and use a Linux environment with its useful utilities to manipulate stuff on my Windows PC.

Yeah, I could use mingw, but that is a pain, and I can't just apt install stuff.

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Not the same as apt, but there's Chocolately, which is actually a legitimate package manager for Windows.

choco install firefox

There's also a package called gsudo which allows you to preface a PowerShell command with sudo to run it as an administrator. It will cause a UAC prompt.

sudo choco update all