I am very happy with Linux on my Dell XPS 13 9310. I use the latest version of Fedora (38 at the time of this writing).
However, the Wi-Fi connection gave me great difficulty for months before I learned that performance is much better with the power saving functionality turned off. With power saving on, I would often lose packets right and left. Here are the steps to fix this.
The time has once again arrived to upgrade Fedora. As detailed in another article, I installed Fedora on WSL 2. Now I want to upgrade to Fedora version 37. I could do a clean install of course, using the steps detailed in that article, but I want to upgrade in place.
Public key authentication failing after a distro or OpenSSH upgrade? Yeah, me too.
For any sysadmin, devops engineer, or general Linux enthusiast, automating the annoying/boring/difficult stuff is crucial. And task scheduling plays a key role in automation.
Most popular Linux distributions use systemd as the init system. It is like a Swiss-army knife that controls startup, shutdown, service monitoring, and so much more.
In late 2022 Microsoft announced systemd support in WSL.
Prior to that point, however, Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) danced to its own initialization tune, and distros running on WSL did not use systemd, and did not generally employ a traditional init system.
This taught folks like me something: I don’t always need to have systemd or other init system for a good Linux experience. Running WSL without systemd is OK.
Using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), we have a choice of Linux distributions available in the Windows Store, such as Ubuntu, Kali, Debian, etc.