Ubuntu to soon have more WSL users than native Linux users

Embrace <--- You Are Here

Extend

Extinguish

Yeah, wsl2 is pretty great, since I'm almost always cli based in linux, no reason to run vmware or virtualbox anymore. Windows terminal is so damn customizable, i dont even need cygwin anymore. And cuda just works in wsl, its great. I get to use claude/codex desktop also, or cli in wsl, whatever I want.

I hope it leads to conversions, because WSL means Microsoft is still building a sneaky "telemetry" dossier on every user, their devices, which users are near the same devices and networks as others users, etc.

Plus "helpfully" keeping a copy of your disk encryption keys for any government that asks nicely.

Running Linux in a VM doesn't protect users from any of that.