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Discussion on: Setting up Windows Subsytem for Linux

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Micah Shute

That's interesting to hear! Like I said in my post, I'm pretty new in the programming world, so I'm definitely not an expert on the subject. The reason I set up WSL as opposed to downloading native Windows versions is because of the article in this Microsoft doc, which said that there are sometimes Windows-specific issues with gems and dependencies when using ruby or nodejs.

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tux0r

I haven't found any yet, but my number of Ruby applications (which I use, at least) is rather small.