Which was especially bad: what's the point in having it "there" if you aren't allowed to access the files inside.
Also problems with making a backup of that etc. In that aspects using a real VM (e.g. VirtualBox) the situation was much clearer.
So from my perspective it was both worse than Cygwin and worse (or at least not better) than real VMs... I would really like to read if/how WSL improved.
The similar experience was when I've tried to "just install ssh server". The things I've expected to "just work" didn't. Again at the end I've just used Cygwin.
https://www.reddit.com/r/bashonubuntuonwindows/comments/7smf...
Regarding the problems between the "different filesystems" it was like:
https://www.reddit.com/r/bashonubuntuonwindows/comments/9dkl...
Which was especially bad: what's the point in having it "there" if you aren't allowed to access the files inside.
Also problems with making a backup of that etc. In that aspects using a real VM (e.g. VirtualBox) the situation was much clearer.
So from my perspective it was both worse than Cygwin and worse (or at least not better) than real VMs... I would really like to read if/how WSL improved.
The similar experience was when I've tried to "just install ssh server". The things I've expected to "just work" didn't. Again at the end I've just used Cygwin.