The most tedious part of my day is when WSL crashes. I then have to close my editor, shutdown WSL in cmd, start the editor again, open a terminal and start over. This happens 2-3 times a day.

In the accumulated time you spent restarting you could have already installed linux

@devRancid this is unfortunately a work laptop and that isn’t an option.

Holy shit I thought I was the only one.

In the last two months WSL has been crashing so much I've plugged in a rpizero to ssh into.

I mean it's always been a pile of shit, but at least I could count on it 80% of my day.

In that time you could have like installed Linux 50 times

It's for these very damn reasons that I go through the excruciating pain of setting up all Windows native solutions that don't require wsl. I know it is Broken as fuck.

The Debian version on wsl 2 seems to be "Stretch" (oldoldstable) and if you thought distro upgrading it on thé spot was a solution you are so horribly mistaken...

Is a virtual machine an option? Or the Windows virtualization option? I thought Windows could act as a hypervisor. Or is that just WSL?

@Demolishun WSL is just a very complicated vm.

Think of it more like Microsoft's version of containers.

So, you're right. A VM should work, but it would be easier to just install Linux in a dual boot system.