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The CS 3110 Textbook, "OCaml Programming: Correct + Efficient + Beautiful"
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Update Microsoft WSL install instructions link #41

Closed aw632 closed 2 years ago

aw632 commented 2 years ago

I've changed the link for WSL installation to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-manual the manual installation instead of the quick install. A few reasons:

  1. The notes on instructions in the textbook correspond to the manual install instructions. In the past, there was only the manual installation instructions, but then microsoft added a quick install, making it incongruous with the textbook notes on instructions.
  2. The quick install seems to cause more trouble than it saves. I've seen the following problems: (1) students pressing buttons or keys or exiting out midway through the process because it is one step that takes a long time (2) students trying to use the quick install on a version of Windows that is too old (3) various bugs with the quick install that are difficult to fix/little documentation

For those reasons, I think we should stick with the manual install