Nobody stays in Linux for the GUIs? Heck if it purely a GUI decision I'd move away from the horror of Linux, the fact that the best "GUI" being told are TUI tells you more than enough of what people's priorities on Linux are.
I would switch over to WSL in a heartbeat if speeds were 60-80% of bare Linux (cpu/memory) and every other subsystem was interoperable / accessible with Windows (cough network) which was my main issue with WSL, anything that wanted to run services was a disaster in WSL (DB/exposing port to host/etc).
For example, you can't pry KDE out of my cold, dead hands, ever. The capabilities of the desktop and the standard KDE installation blows anything I have used out of water easily.
We (as in Linux users, sysadmins and devs) love our TUIs because they work transparently over SSH. I have more than 100 servers which I reach regularly. I neither want to install a full graphical user interface, nor forward it to my desktop to manage them.
If you want to discuss this, I'm chill & all ears.
With debloat, Windows 11 is a great experience. And WSL makes it easier to test out various distros . Lots of great windows apps. Great Terminal, VS Code, Great Browser with MS Edge. Hyper V is a decent hypervisor and easy to work with. Windows 11 is very nice. and RDP is excellent. Overall I prefer Windows 11 + WSL over a Linux desktop experience.
> Why would you prefer WSL over native Linux?
I have a number of both. I like WSL for when I'm working in Windows and need to run some quick bash and handle the output in Windows file explorer.
Today I'm working on a project that runs bash scripts in WSL; it utilizes multiple unbound servers (that run in Ubuntu minimal and in pfsense).
Because you want the best the both worlds, but it makes people think Linux has no GUI so it just keeps them locked to windows
They are very afraid of replacing Linux with windows, don't know how it's done, what it is etc.
Nobody stays in Linux for the GUIs? Heck if it purely a GUI decision I'd move away from the horror of Linux, the fact that the best "GUI" being told are TUI tells you more than enough of what people's priorities on Linux are.
I would switch over to WSL in a heartbeat if speeds were 60-80% of bare Linux (cpu/memory) and every other subsystem was interoperable / accessible with Windows (cough network) which was my main issue with WSL, anything that wanted to run services was a disaster in WSL (DB/exposing port to host/etc).
GUI of what?
For example, you can't pry KDE out of my cold, dead hands, ever. The capabilities of the desktop and the standard KDE installation blows anything I have used out of water easily.
We (as in Linux users, sysadmins and devs) love our TUIs because they work transparently over SSH. I have more than 100 servers which I reach regularly. I neither want to install a full graphical user interface, nor forward it to my desktop to manage them.
If you want to discuss this, I'm chill & all ears.
Or they use software for which there is no Linux build or version with feature parity. That still exists.
Or they prefer the GUI in Windows like some people prefer the GUI from Apple. Those preferences still exist.
With debloat, Windows 11 is a great experience. And WSL makes it easier to test out various distros . Lots of great windows apps. Great Terminal, VS Code, Great Browser with MS Edge. Hyper V is a decent hypervisor and easy to work with. Windows 11 is very nice. and RDP is excellent. Overall I prefer Windows 11 + WSL over a Linux desktop experience.