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For me it was slow, full of compatibility issues, and glitchy. Some simple packages wouldn't even install in the official Ubuntu WSL distro. To be honest I don't know what the use case for this is, other than to run some one-off Linux thing once in a while without having to use another box.

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How long ago did you try that?

I use WSL2 to handle Linux (and Windows cross-) compilation regularly, along with running a number of native tools that are specific to Linux.

I've never had any issues with that, even to the point that I've been able to run MAME natively from Linux and have it show up like any other windowed app.

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