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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Is the Windows Subsystem for Linux worth it? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Sometimes in enterprise environments you're not allowed to have a proper Linux and you're forced even as dev to use that thing from ms.

Since hardly any code in the web runs on NT, the wsl is the only way getting your things done. It does what it does OK(ish) but except of that single usecase I would never use it.