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No Cygwin/git bash?
WSL in my experience really sucks.
Debian WSL has been legit more stable for me than running it as the primary OS. Dunno what to tell you, because you can't change my past experience with what I have been dealing with for the past two decades using Linux as my daily driver coming up as a broke student and now have money to pay for an OS that is less robust but more stable and better driver development.
Dealing with Linux for 2 decades doesn't make you and expert in modern Linux. It just makes you old.
Even leaving Linux for a few years means that you get behind. I had to explain to a coworker what Wayland was because he hasn't used Linux in years.
If WSL works for you that's great but here are the issues I've had
weird networking issues where Windows can access Linux but Linux can not access Windows without lots of work.
any advanced networking like VPN's will not work
It is slow and requires working virtualization
Filesystem sharing is not as easy as I would like
It is a bit finicky to get working and requires a bunch of disk space and resources.
Meanwhile native Linux doesn't have these issues and git bash/cygwin is almost native in the sense that it has little overhead. Architectural perspective Cygwin is a lot like Wine. It just translates Linux calls to Windows ones.
If you need Windows I would run it in a VM under Linux as that's going to be a much better experience.
You don't have to know what Wayland is, it isn't necessary in the least.
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Without doxxing myself, I promise you I know more about linux than you do and I'm not saying windows is better, you silly fuck, I am saying it's more stable. I don't even recommend using either as a server when BSD is better at stability than both OS combined.
Linus, is that you?
No, just a random internet idiot.