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> it has a decent CLI half baked in with a number of weird ass exceptions that punch you in the face regularly.

Tell me you haven't used WSL without telling me you haven't used WSL.

Try running background processes and services or routing reliably over a VPN with working DNS and you will see what I mean. Also there’s the whole hyper-v bridge switch mess which tends to break all the other hyper-v stuff once every 6 months including WSL. Unbinding IPv4 from your wifi interface is also bloody annoying because you can’t Google how to fix it. Again.

So lose the infernal meme snark. I used this more than most people did. And no, works for me is not a suitable retort because we have 200 people with the same issues day in day out.

It’s a fucking shit show.

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