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1. rao-v · 1790699795 · focus · HN ↗

   I have to say this is nice packaging. It is weirdly not obvious how nice it is to cleanly use a different “machine” inside your desktop.

   I never thought I’d prefer WSL to even my MacBook for working with remote servers and dev but somehow I do.

   I of course know the many ways to roll something like this for myself, yes dev containers are better for many things etc. but it’s wierd how good the ergonomics of a WSL like container are.

   1. bketelsen · 1790701804 · focus · HN ↗

      Thanks for saying so! That's exactly why I wrote this. The UX of wsl2 is just right. There are a lot of other ways to accomplish this, but none touch that same experience.
   2. snapplebobapple · 1790712348 · focus · HN ↗

      Have you tried mise? It handled most of that for me because dev environment is exactly what is needed per project

      1. rao-v · 1790720388 · focus · HN ↗

         I use mise inside WSL. It's sort of a terminal into "workspace" for me. Should probably spin an orbstsck or whatever to do thisnon my macbook

         1. lucideer · 1790769421 · focus · HN ↗

            I'm very curious about this - as a mise user this seems like a redundant extra level of abstraction that I can't figure out the benefits of (& WSL definitely comes with at least some downsides).

            From the OP I see:

            > my long journey to keep my host installation free from all the changing and breaking dev dependencies that force a reinstall every few months

            mise does this 100% for me (assuming we don't count mise itself as one of those dev dependencies). I'm struggling to think of what falls outside of it?

            1. tonymet · 1790797481 · focus · HN ↗

               i agree. you can quickly import distro images into named WSL VMs (distros) to keep things separated. and you get close-to-native performance (especially by disabling kernel mitigations)

               1. lucideer · 1790858355 · focus · HN ↗

                  not sure I follow the context of this comment - did you mean to reply to me?

                  1. tonymet · 1790864009 · focus · HN ↗

                     No need for mise just run separate wsl “distros” (VMs ) eg Debian-node , debian-Claude by importing root images . I use alpine because each one is tiny

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