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Windows 11 and WSL manages this well . For those developing linux apps & containers using VS Code, you'll find the Windows 11 experience to be very good. You can code against WSL which offers the more popular distros, or use HyperV to run your own custom VMs.

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In general, yes.

One weird quirk: networking can be peculiar. Windows creates a magic bridging between the host and WSL, and as anything magic, it can break for specific use cases.

VPN is one [0]: my WSL instances lose outgoing networking when connecting to our company VPN. There are workarounds but none are trivial.

[0] https://superuser.com/questions/1715764/wsl2-has-no-connecti...

Good to know. My vpn works but I believe it’s wireguard-based. I wonder if yours is TUN/TAP or another driver

It seems to be TAP (layer 2 tunneling)

Thinking about it, as the whole machine is under MDM (I only have the VPN on my dedicated work machine), there might be additional quirks that mess with the networking as well. Even bridging the Wi-fi to it was kind of a PITA.

This has been fixed for many months now as you can switch between different networking types for WSL.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/networking#mir...

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