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WSL2 is a VM, though. It was only WSL1 that tried to do a kernel-level shim for the Linux userspace layer.

Antivirus on Windows are notorious at inserting itself as filesystem filters that triggered on every file access, which adds overhead into every read and write action. Combined with node_modules containing gazillion files, I'm surprised his project only loads in 2 minutes :)

I assume he means WSL2 vs node.exe