people act like having to type into a command line is a fate worse than death
i genuinely think that the world would be a better place if everyone spent 45 seconds learning how the command line works
i promise it's easy
@monorail I don't use it much but whenever I do I think it's fun
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@coriander @monorail install WSL2! there’s a world of fun and magic to be had in the funny good command line world!!
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@coriander @aescling the technical way it works is like. i bet i'd understand it if i looked it up. but it's not important
the practical effect it has on your life is that you have a little linux computer hidden inside your windows computer. and whenever you want you can just pull it up and use linux for things. it's not as heavy (or complete) as a vm but you can get a command line and do linux stuff on your mounted windows filesystems
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@monorail @coriander no it is actually literally just a virtual machine
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@monorail @coriander WSL1 had a cool WINE-like translation layer going on but they just do VMs now
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@aescling @coriander that must be what i'm thinking of
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@monorail @coriander i’m sad they gave up on the WSL1 way of doing things but i’m not exactly surpurrised either
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@monorail @coriander WSL1 was really cool though, it would run linux binaries natively on windows. with some hackery you could ever run the binaries directly from CMD!