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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.