If you are finding using windows FW hard, you could try https://github.com/pylorak/TinyWall

I have seen that this is still a problem, even in established enterprise companies.

c11 threads seem to be supported by msvc https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/c11-threads-in-visual-studio-2022-version-17-8-preview-2/

Probably gcc supports it on both mac and MS

You could also cross compile for windows from linux, iirc there are mingw packages on linux.

Not a web dev, but thats a lot of js in an HTML survey.

Meant to say a guo DE, not sure you can run plasma/jde on that, maybe with vnc/rdp? But still its with x11 server iirc.

TIL, thanks.

Is it pre installed nowadays? I rember having to go to some store and doing stuff to get it…

Mounts and networks should be just checkboxes, dropdowns iirc.

Terminals are probably better on linux anyway, if we really want the stone age windows tools we can always ssh into it from windows.

I didnt really get the gui part, linux vm can have, and run GUIs, all the intellij stuff are available for linux natively. Even then iirc they can run with any linux remotely as well, just needs ssh. If you need it to run on windows like native apps, maybe use Xserver via ssh.

As far as quirks I read some comments in this thread about filesystem being too slow, maybe there are more.

And now that i have typed all these, if you want it to look and feel exactly as windows withput any compromise, idk…

I wouldnt say a lot, maybe its more, but i would estimate 15min for wsl2 vs 45min for virtual box. Plus you get lot more featues than plain wsl2 and its quirks.

At this point i would just install a linux distro like ubuntu/debian/arch as a VM on virtualbox/vmware/hyperv and do it from there, WSL2 is supposed to be custom ubuntu minus gui running on hypervany way.

Hey, dont decide based on my comment alone, lol.

Suse tumbleweed is kinda bad though. The docs are always outdated with broken links. nothing works out of the box. Yaast is kind of clunky, and looks ancient, looks wise. Updates are slow and I got tired real fast resolving broken dependncies.

Their plasma+firefox patches nice though.

I just checked Japan, India, Brazil. They dont operate there…

Not sure, but, I dont think any of them are available outside usa/europe. Lenovo has more global coverage

You mean the nipple mouse?

Add some ribbons and stickers?

Maybe drwing in, or just throwing a bone. But I think there are more things unsaid. What does it mean to pakistan, china and russia.