Re: [IBMiOSS] Python, ACS, Open Source and MKDocs

On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 7:23 PM Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm trying to love WSL. I can't do WSL2 because I don't have Windows 10
Pro on this machine. Even though my PC supports it, Microsoft of course
hobbles it (as it does RDP) on the Home version. I haven't yet managed
to force myself to pony up the $100 upgrade/extortion fee.

Are you sure you can't do WSL 2 on Home? Have you tried, or are you
just going by what you've seen online?

Some quick Googling turns up people who (1) say that Home can't do WSL
2, because it can't do one or both of Hyper-V or Virtual Machine
Platform; (2) people who say they are actually running WSL 2 on Home;
(3) people who cite Microsoft documentation in support of (1); and (4)
people who say some pages of MS documentation are out of date, and
would you please refer back to (2) already.

Here's a thread exhibiting all of those:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/29175/installation-of-hyper-v-on-windows-10-home.html

I found this, which seems promising:

https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/WSL/issues/899

At least, that last thread doesn't strike me as people just talking
out of their asses.

I cannot personally vouch for any assertions anyone makes about WSL 2,
because I have not been sufficiently motivated to try any version of
WSL. To be perfectly honest, the native Windows versions of things
have been more than good enough for me so far.

John Y.