Sujet : Re: cpu-x
De : bowman (at) *nospam* montana.com (rbowman)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.advocacyDate : 09. May 2024, 07:18:27
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On Wed, 08 May 2024 19:35:07 -0400, Joel wrote:
WSL 2 as interesting as it is technically speaking is like a lot of VM
schemes, not efficient enough. If it were really as useful as real
Linux, I wouldn't have reinstalled Win11 to get it off my machine,
although it was a good time to refresh my installation anyway. But I
had its GUI working, and installed GIMP just to see what running it
under Win11 would be like.
It has its uses. Rather specialized but we needed a basemap tile server
for trade show demos where a reliable internet connection wasn't
available. The pricing for adequate wifi at trade shows is close to
highway robbery as is almost everything else at a show, Anyway...
https://switch2osm.org/serving-tiles/manually-building-a-tile-server-20-04-lts/
Nice step-by-step instructions for several Linux flavors. "You wanted to
do it on Windows? Good luck. Tell us how it comes out."
Anyway using WSL on the marketing laptops I was able to set up the tile
server that was used by the Angular brower app running on the Windows side
of the laptop. I thought I might have to use a dedicated Linux box but it
worked out as a self contained package with one less thing to get lost or
damaged on the way to a show.
You can also install Kali on WSL for a handy pen testing setup. Another
use is if you run Docker Desktop. I think you can do it with straight
HyperV but it's a lot happier if it finds a WSL instance.
Microsoft put a lot of work into it and they are not altruists. If you can
corral developers that prefer to work with Linux into doing so on a
Windows machine that all the better. I'll have to look into why MS
recommends WSL for Python web development. I've never used Django, Flask,
or the other Python frameworks so I don't know the nuances.