Hello, What can I say, you hear stories about WSL being fun to work with. Still deprived of my Mac (VDH002 error), I got myself a nicely refurbished X230 on ebay that happened to have Win10 already on it. In short: I installed Debian as an app. And it was (mostly) as simple as that. Transition from buster to bullseye was fine, google fixed one little hickup that I would not have had with WSL2. You have immediate access to all files on Windows. And all of Debian Med with it.
Where I see this to be particularly useful is when you have Windows machines that generate various sorts of data that you then want post-processed in some way. And, ahem, it is one less reason to use conda on Windows. Also, the academic institution feeding me has Windows in its student compute labs - maybe WSL would be a possibility to sneak in. Anyway, there is something. And yes, we are too quiet about it, even if it feels much like MS is embracing us again, but it is better than what we have. And I wish we would have the same for the mac. Well, we do, it is called conda/brew/guix, but I mean without a recompilation. Once we have identified a series of core workflows that Debian Med supports, I suggest to have these tested in routine also with WSL. Best, Steffen
