I don't want Zed to focus on accommodating WSL's quirks.

pzmarzly · 2026-08-06T00:04:24 1785974664

I would like Zed to have feature parity with VSCode from 6 years ago. Working well over SSH or WSL, which it currently doesn't, is a part of that, even if I don't use that everyday.

I am a paying user, and have no plans to stop supporting them financially, but I wish they locked in and went through GH Issues queue, starting from the oldest.

WD-42 · 2026-08-06T00:59:08 1785977948

Of course vs code accommodates wsl. Same company. Personally I couldn’t care less how badly MS wants to make windows a viable development environment. It’s more irrelevant every day. I’m glad zed doesn’t waste too much time on it.

pjmlp · 2026-08-06T06:51:02 1785999062

Windows is more than viable as development platform, ask Valve why they need Proton in first place.

Aeolos · 2026-08-06T10:17:47 1786011467

Breaking an illegal monopoly takes decades but, as it happened with Internet Explorer 6, it's finally happening for Windows.

pjmlp · 2026-08-06T12:53:38 1786020818

70% market share, plus all the games that Proton depends on.

Aeolos · 2026-08-09T15:27:53 1786289273

And trending down.

IE6 was 97%, how did that work out?

sh0gg0the · 2026-08-06T11:10:10 1786014610

Are you saying that games get released on Windows a lot because developers prefer Windows as a development platform?

pjmlp · 2026-08-06T12:53:08 1786020788

Yes, that is the favourite platform for game studios, and console devkits.

Freaky · 2026-08-06T16:57:26 1786035446

How about accommodating basic fundamentals like file change notifications not being universally reliable?

All my code lives on the other end of a Samba share. Guess what doesn't work reliably.