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		totetsu on April 15, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General ... I find that most of the linux-like versions of user-space tools can be installed via homebrew. What functionality would you been hoping for from a linux vm? would this VM be able to have any GPL v3 licensed tools?

pknopf on April 15, 2020 [–]

Yeah, the drive for a "WSL" is really because Microsoft/Windows doesn't play nice with the *nix world of tools/commands that developers are falling in love with.

With OSX, the terminal experience is great, no need for a "WSL" over there!

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