My vote is in! Anything to do with developing in Linux or adjacent tech, please let the team know there's interest. Votes count.

Voted!

@seancorfield I'm curious, what do you like better about Win/WSL2 over Mac?

@Dave Merrill Because I can have my choice of Linux distro and they all have seamless integration with the host. macOS Darwin is a bit weird and Apple have a tendency to change stuff that can break otherwise perfectly valid Linux OSS stuff (they broke filesystem watching libraries in Big Sur, for example).

Understood, thanks. Also good to know that WSL2 is stable and sane enough to be your daily driver.

My work stack is primarily Clojure with Percona (MySQL), Redis, Elastic Search and I run all of that on WSL2 with Docker (

docker-compose

) to bring up Percona, Redis, and ES. For our legacy CFML, I run CommandBox with Lucee on WSL2. I have

nginx

in front of that (on WSL2) and use

google-chrome

from WSL2 for testing. Then I have VS Code on Windows to edit all of that.

Voted!

Voted! WSL2 on Windows 11 even has some GUI support.

Yeah, running Chrome from Ubuntu for testing is pretty acceptable -- but I wouldn't want that to be my daily UI/UX experience (like, I would never consider running VS Code on Ubuntu/WSL2 even tho' I could).

WSL makes 2022 finally the year of the Linux desktop 🤣 . Can totally related to @seancorfield’s reasons for leaving the Mac ecosystem. I went to full Linux desktop 2018 and wouldn’t go back to either Win or Mac.