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Place to create and follow issues about the application Raft WSL
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Not really an issue - But thought you might like my thoughts on Raft-WSL #27

Closed aleksd2000 closed 2 years ago

aleksd2000 commented 2 years ago

I have tried to leave this feedback in the Microsoft App Store, but it limits you to a very small amount of characters for an in-depth review.

Review of Raft WSL:

Ok, so my initial thoughts:

    Not a bad looking application, it certainly has a lot of options.... AND a lot of distributions - nice!

    I think it might go down a bit better though if you weren't asked to give billing details at the beginning
    but maybe given a popup after about a week to update it? After all isn't that what a free trial is all about?

    Ok, so it comes with two main menu options, Distributions and Snapshots, then at the bottom we have the usual
    Feedback, Rate us and Settings -- Why don't we go have a look in Settings and see what we can break :)

        Oh nice, you can customise the Snapshots folder, AND the main distribution folder as well!! So let's
        do that.

        So now I have everything pointing at my SD Card, because I don't have an awful lot of space on my 
        harddisk, so having the option through Raft to install to that is great!

        Ok, so I changed the Default Distribution directory to point to the SD Card, but it doesn't install
        any distributions in that location, instead their still being installed to the default location ...
        So that clearly doesn't seem to work in my installation ... OK so I have fixed the issue with regards to
        that, apparently you can use Raft to install WSL Distributions to other locations but not native installs
        (by that I mean clicking a distribution in the list and it install to the new location), so to install to
        other locations you first have to install it to the default location (usually the system disk), then create
        a snapshot and then restore the snapshot to the new location.

        Taking that into account it works fine, and to a point really good. But just needs that little bit better 
        documentation in regards to the usage of the location section in the settings. Or even better a way to change
        the default location of where it installs native distributions.

    Now I should point out I have been a heavy WSL user since it first came out, and this sort of interface is 
    aimed at people that don't know the commands, but it's really good.

Features:

    Handy little command view at the bottom, but it doesn't actually tell you what commands it's using ... Maybe
    a little feature upgrade for next time?