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WSL is a landmine of bad design. I lost all my data once, and that incident made me switch to a Mac. Here's how you can lose all your data - and Microsoft engi
by your_challenger 1y ago
WSL is a landmine of bad design. I lost all my data once, and that incident made me switch to a Mac.
Here's how you can lose all your data - and Microsoft engineers won’t care:
https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/8992 https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/8992
https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/9830 https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/9830
https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/9049#issuecomment-2620221535 https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/9049#issuecomment-26...
- dbacar 1y agoMac IS the Sotate of the Art at the developer experience. The only annoyance was the virtualisation on Arm but having UTM/Multipass/Virttualbox now, it is the best. If you are up to too many containers, a linux box would be more preferable.
- pxc 1y agoI've hit real data loss bugs in WSL, as well— files disappearing, sometimes even rendering the WSL guest unbootable.
- wbkang 1y agoI read your issue, and it's not so different from `sudo rm -rf /` as opposed to an actual design flaw.
- your_challenger 1y ago`sudo rm -rf /` requires you to be a superuser or provide a password, whereas running `wsl --unregister` does not require elevated privileges.