Should beginners work with WSL?

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Michael!

On Sun, Feb 6, 2022 at 5:22 AM Michael Shiloh
<michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What is WSL?
>

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux ;
https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/culture/case-for-commercial-fan-fiction/indiv-nodes/starved_of_employees.xhtml
; http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8764 .

> On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 11:40 PM Shachar Shemesh <shachar at shemesh.biz> wrote:
>>
>> The context is a book I'm writing about introduction to Linux. I don't know exactly who will pick it up and what her reasons might be.
>>
>> On 05/02/2022 08:37, Yaacov Zamir wrote:
>>
>> 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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