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> 3. Ability to run Linux natively using WSL.

But what are you doing in WSL that you can't do on a Mac (or, of course, a Linux machine) without a 'subsystem'?

Sincere question, because the 'Mac is not Linux' things that wind me up tend to require X11 to fix, WSL would be no different.



Mac ships with their own posix subsystem, WSL allows you to install a bunch of popular flavours of linux on top of Windows. I personally run Arch Linux and have access to a lot more bleeding edge packages.


To clarify, Mac ships with a native Unix [1], derived from BSD, not a posix subsystem. It has its own init (launchd) and its own GUI, but most of it is a Unix.

Using Macports or homebrew gets you most of the packages that are available for the various Linuxes, GNU utilities etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_%28operating_system%29


> WSL allows you to install a bunch of popular flavours of linux on top of Windows. I personally run Arch Linux

Oh, I didn't know that, that does make it a bit more interesting to me!

I still think I'd be frustrated (as I am on Mac) with the lack of a configurable (or even of a choice of) window manager though.




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