Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!news.mixmin.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: cpu-x Date: 9 May 2024 05:18:27 GMT Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <66394366$0$3711192$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <663b9bdb$0$7066$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <3p2o3jl48sh89pc3t2bloovf7jtsbqjh7m@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net rHlkNdSWPArZyCNDb7TcPAWmQqrWhFmgTgrfkeOh3Mt2H0rZBZ Cancel-Lock: sha1:WpcMoCuo+NlJgcdF2M564yM864E= sha256:79OU9RxBzMEBf60O2G3SPQ7i6Dyhf1UXVyESWYlVioQ= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Bytes: 2824 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.