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As slow as Windows is (very), once you start adding the corporate security tools on top of it (Crowdstrike) and have to deal with a slow and buggy corporate DNS system, it just becomes unusable.

The only way I can do anything timely now is through WSL.

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Yeah, I'm worried about the day when infosec turns it's eye toward WSL. So far they have turned a blind eye, but just wait until someone cooks up an exploit targeting WSL...

It's "just" a Hyper-V VM with some extra drivers to talk to the sibling VM. There isn't much special about it that should worry you too much.

Well, I'd like to tell security that

In my experience they just block it in corporate environments.

They don't explicitly block it in my org, but connecting to VPN while it's running breaks the networking inside WSL.

Sometimes it is routed from the VPN, sometimes it is DNS, sometimes it just needs a restart. I'm not sure if that situation has improved. There were some workarounds at one point.

> The only way I can do anything timely now is through WSL.

There's your mistake, if do it faster, you're going to get more work assigned. If you do it as Windows speed you get to do less work. Same money.

True, those things make Windows unusable. They also make the Mac worse, but not so much worse that it isn’t an absolute breath of fresh air compared to any corporate provided Windows device.

I’ve been experimenting with windows 11 IoT enterprise this week. You can disable and uninstall a fair amount of cruft

Yeh. The unix VNC session I connect to is snappier than the client host it is running on.

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