Should beginners work with WSL?

[Mark E. Fuller]

5 Feb 2022 8:38:26 Yaacov Zamir <kobi.zamir at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
> 
> Sorry for the off topic answer
> I was trying to think what I would recommend, and found that I would give different answers depending on the needs of the specific beginner. 
> Do they want to try out the desktop environment, e.g. gnome KDE? 
> Do they want to learn to be linux sys admins?
> Do they want to learn to program linux specific applications, drivers?
> Do they want to learn linux containers, virtulization?
> What type of beginner do you have in mind?
> 
> בתאריך יום ו׳, 4 בפבר׳ 2022, 09:11 PM, מאת Shachar Shemesh ‏<shachar at shemesh.biz>:
>> 
>> Title pretty much says it all. Should beginners on Linux be directed toward trying out WSL?
>> 
>> 
>> I have my own opinion, but I'd like to hear others as well.
>> 
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> 
>> Shachar
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Tl;dr what is the intended application?

An analogous question came up previously elsewhere, only instead of WSL, the subject was Arch. I think my line of reasoning still applies:

First question is why? Why do you want to run Linux? If you have a box and time to spare and you want to dive down the rabbit hole and don't care how long it takes to get a functioning machine, then Arch is fine. You want to just slap something on a computer that will run as a desktop so you can work, probably Fedora or Ubuntu. You want to throw together a server, go for a RHEL clone like Rocky (or sign up for a Red Hat developer account and install official/use their documentation).
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