So I’ve recently been interested in doing a complete switch from Windows to Ubuntu, and I’ve been playing around with WSL2 in Windows quite a bit and I have to admit I am pretty impressed with their implementation.

However, one of the reasons I’ve been drawn to Linux these days is the privacy aspect, and I’m looking to get everyone’s thoughts on whether using Linux apps in WSL improves your privacy at all, or do I need to just flat out get off windows to get any sort of privacy benefit. My plan is to eventually get off Windows completely, but I guess I’m wondering if WSL is a good middle ground.

  • wvstolzing
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    31 year ago

    W/o a fully functional systemd (or equivalent) implementation, there’s no dbus session; w/o dbus, GUI apps can’t work reliably.

    As to various server processes – windows can kill them at will, if it decides that they’re idling.

    Peerhaps some cli tools work reliably on wsl2; but then again it’s got very slow i/o for extensive use.

    I think a fully fledged vm on Hyper-V is a better bet by far.