I never thought I’d prefer WSL to even my MacBook for working with remote servers and dev but somehow I do.

I of course know the many ways to roll something like this for myself, yes dev containers are better for many things etc. but it’s wierd how good the ergonomics of a WSL like container are.

And what prevented adopting/supporting existing projects, instead of further tool ecosystem fragmentation? (kinda the same question, just differently phrased)

https://snowlinux.org/

I submitted the Github page as a new story:

https://github.com/frostyard/snowdesktop

https://smackernews.com/item/49907568 HN

Got a quick demo? Just opening an editor, running a dev server, and showing how you access the files would help me get a feel for it.

Its also sounds different from WSL which I thought is a VM rather than a container.

It's yet another step in my long journey to keep my host installation free from all the changing and breaking dev dependencies that force a reinstall every few months.

Something that also require a bit of explanation. What do you do that makes this such a common problem.

FWIW, I'm currently using systemd-nspawn via mkosi: https://github.com/systemd/mkosi

It makes an image and runs it in separate namespace. It can start at bash or init. It's very fast but there seem to be a problem creating an Ubuntu image on Debian and vice versa.

I'm a bit of an outsider here (I don't understand computer) but a few weeks ago I was wrestling with the question of deploying an application on many boxen. After looking into Docker (and unikernels, lol) I arrived at the conclusion that "the operating system is part of my application."

A very bloated "part", which I did not write, don't understand very well, and which spontaneously self-modifies. An OS is a big bag of global mutable state! Ew!

This made me very sad. (At which point I was informed that I had basically reinvented NixOS from first principles?)

Also something about "we don't break userspace -- that's libc's job!"

https://blog.hiler.eu/win32-the-only-stable-abi/

Anyway, should this be called LSL or WSLL? Or maybe LSWSL.

It's neat seeing this experience come to linux.

Sure you "could" do this with a bunch of tools, but it's the UX that matters.

Creative idea to fix something that nobody thought was broken, but actually was.

Now all you have to do is run NSL under WSL.

- https://sdme.io

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eVfgzd_xyQ

The benefit is that its super low overhead (no VM).

The website's Claudisms are unbearable.

I think I'll stick to Nix & Podman.