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I guess there are few of us, but I would absolutely never use that subsystem rather than a real Linux system.


Neither would I, personally. But Linux is hard to manage for corporations especially when people use different distros.

These things may be required by the security department. So WSL is a nice carrot there for them. Management through Windows and Linux on top of it. I worked in endpoint management so I can see the appeal.

However personally I really like the way Linux is free of corporate influence. In fact I switched to FreeBSD for that reason as I feel that big IT is getting too involved with Linux.


> But Linux is hard to manage for corporations especially when people use different distros.

Last time I set up a startup, our developers all worked in the same environment as our servers.


But that's a startup, I was speaking more of enterprise (in which I work). We have much more rigid security rules, and we're also a much bigger target for bad actors.


Same here, the sense of freedom is incomparable.




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