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WSL is becoming more attractive as a development environment by the day. Maybe my next computer in 4-5 years won’t be a Mac.

I miss having access to Windows games.

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Proton(linux) is surprisingly good !

Recently switched from mac to windows (wsl2). My previous attempts (switching to linux or wsl1) all failed miserably but the wsl2 is pretty good.

And I could build a PC as I wish. Weird times.

What makes WSL2 work for you, where WSL1 failed?

Usually he answer is either having a init that can run services or FS performance.

WSL1 had / has really bad filesystem performance. Git commands would take ages on large repos as a example.

WSL2 has a linux fs which is fast and a bridge to windows fs which is still slow but I just live on the linux fs. WSL2 also runs native docker (and windows docker client and leverage the docker daemon in wsl).

It is not completely seamless but pretty good.

It’s getting better but the inconsistent UI (Control Panel and that other thing) and garbage that comes with it is still quite annoying. There’s probably some corporate environment to avoid the latter, but I’d still rather not have random apps installing when I simply buy the pro version.

Encountered a fair bit of issues trying to use wsl2 + vscode Wsl remote extension.

About to abandon that plan because it’s just too much of a pain. (WSL extension Locking files needed by npm specifically)

Does it really work on WSL? Not for me on WSL 1, maybe on WSL2 it's different. It does not mention that on their page either.

WSL2 is essentially a Linux VM while WSL1 is a thin emulator. It’s much better but still not perfect, thinks like Nix can be a bit awkward.

When the time comes, Mac's might be in completely different league with their custom build ARM CPU's.

True, I am also very excited about having a future ARM desktop.

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