Arlen Holder wrote:
On Tue, 19 May 2020 18:46:00 -0400, Paul wrote:

What incentive do I have to even turn it on, via Windows Features ?

Since you're almost always purposefully helpful, you're worth my time to
explain why you "might" want to turn WSL on.

My offhand comment, is about this:

WSL1 = no hardware dependency, works for everyone

WSL2 = required Hyper-V be turned on, to make kernel component work
Hyper-V requires SLAT/EPT on desktops, to be enabled in Windows Features

There's no problem with people continuing to experiment with WSL1.

And that's what I have enabled here.

I was testing WSL1 around two or three days after it showed up.
In particular, GNUWIN32 version of gawk 3.1 had just crashed
on a big job (multi-gigabyte input), and I wanted to test the
gawk 4.0 in WSL1. And it managed to finish the filtering job
I'd set for it.

What didn't work well, is text line endings were not handled the
same in WSL1 gawk 4.0, versus GNUWIN32 gawk 3.1. The GNUWIN32
version uses "windows" line endings, while at the time, the WSL1
used "Linux" line endings. The different requires a two line
stanza be added to the BEGIN clause, to compensate.

If using WSL, be aware there could be line ending
issues, and you'll be OK.

Paul