On 05/17/2017 11:59 AM, James Knott wrote:
On 05/17/2017 12:55 PM, jdd@dodin.org wrote:
Le 17/05/2017 à 18:25, James Knott a écrit :
Fedora, openSUSE and Ubuntu are now available in the Windows Store, making life easier for Windows-dominant organizations to run open source software
is it really easy? last time I tried, I failed after more than an hour hell...
While I haven't tried openSUSE yet, Ubuntu went in easy enough.
While it is "really that easy", there are some sever usability issues for actual development on windows. The biggest being that windows still has no concept of Linux file permissions. Meaning if you edit a file within the WSL install, the file disappears because the Linux file permissions are lost on save. Next there is the whole X issue, so if you want to use a favorite Linux GUI editor (e.g. gtk, wxwidgets, etc..) to edit files within WSL, you will need an X emulator to allow the editor to run under windows. If you are fine with vim or emacs, then there isn't any problem. Don't get me wrong, WSL works really, really well, the only issue is the interoperability between tools/files on the windows side and those that reside within WSL. I've had no problems with full software builds in WSL involving all normal libraries you would normally use (gtk+, openssl, etc..). The Ubuntu install has a weird default config with 'root' disabled, but after restoring a normal Linux config, its just Linux. (that may be how Ubuntu does it, dunno other than the WSL install) There have been a number of complaints regarding the file permission issue, and I know it was being looked into in a serious way, but at the time 6-8 months ago, you are just stuck with it as it was a hard limitation in Win10/WSL itself that was the issue. Whenever I boot Win10 (generally about once a month), I update the WSL install with apt-get and I have had zero problems with the Linux install. Once you know about the filesystem issue, it isn't hard to learn the rules associated with how to handle moving/editing files from either side of the house to avoid problems. Primarily, you just cannot save from the windows side to Linux (you can copy from windows within Linux without issue, you just can't save from windows directly to Linux) Well worth installing, just take time to learn the filesystem rules to avoid frustrations. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org