Comment by dfe

I was disappointed when Microsoft dropped original WSL.

I'll admit I wasn't a Windows user at the time, nor since for that matter. But I had been before.

I knew the history of the "Windows Services for UNIX" and thought that it was incredibly interesting to have the Windows kernel, full driver support, NTFS, and the ability to just use Windows normally, but also be able to just do UNIX-type stuff more or less normally.

Which is what I've been doing on my Mac since the early 2000s.

Then Microsoft had to make Windows a complete shit-show. Not like it hasn't happened before, but they really got themselves in deep this time.