35User Rating: 3 out of 5

Review title of Allen As a developer, this is *NOT* a reliable distro

3 stars because installation is easy. Otherwise, this is proved to be massively unreliable for a development environment. On a clean Pengwin install, attempting to build the Erlang fails, various packages cannot be found (that have been successfully installed). Building on WSL Ubuntu is seamless and perfect. Furthermore, `apt-add-repository` is broken by default. It seems like many of the "optimizations" that make Pengwin "optimized for WSL" actually end up breaking what would otherwise be entirely normal, deeply relied-upon linux behavior. I wasted 2 hours of my day just to find out that this Linux distro is utterly broken and unreliable. I need an immediate refund, this is not suitable for its only purpose.

Whitewater Foundry, Ltd. Co. responded on 4/20/2020 Each Linux distribution is different and has different goals. The beauty of WSL is that you can install as many distributions as you want without having to marry any. Some programs run better on one distro than another. It is vital to make it clear that Pengwin is not an Ubuntu "optimized for WSL" nor Ubuntu based. Pengwin is Debian based, and the apt-add-repository is not broken; it is not installed by default. If you run Debian, you will find that this command is not installed there also. We add packages to the base Debian that we consider and also what our users ask. It is the first time that a user asks for this. We have thought about it, but adding this package increases a lot the image size hurting all users that don't need it. We put an entry in our how-to page: https://whitewaterfoundry.github.io/Pengwin/wiki/Install-apt-add-repository-in-Pengwin instead. For refunds, please forward your Microsoft Store confirmation e-mail to contact@whitewaterfoundry.com. -Carlos