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0 pointsNayamAmarshe3y ago0 comments

WSL was a nightmare for me too. Hacks piled on top of other hacks, required to make Linux CLI work on Windows but it's just that, a hacky way to use Linux.

Sometimes the system broke, sometimes the filesystem limitations and the performance was always bad, especially with anything involving a large number of files. It was just an awful experience all around. I think anybody who uses WSL over real Linux is only doing it because they either do not want to learn something better & different or they have hardware issues with Linux.

So glad I moved to a real installation after wasting a whole month on WSL. Couldn't be any happier.

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easygenes3y ago

Yeah, it doesn't have to be so hacky though. I really don't understand the architectural choices Microsoft made to make it so kludgy to work with, and half the problem is just that Hyper-V is slow and buggy compared to VMware's hypervisor. VMware Workstation just works, quite well, when it gets to use the proper VMware hypervisor.

Given the friction and cost involved in getting that working, it's probably smart to just run Linux bare metal unless you're doing work akin to what led me to that (e.g. needing to work with a Windows corporate environment while configuring Linux test clusters).

NayamAmarsheOP3y ago

> (e.g. needing to work with a Windows corporate environment while configuring Linux test clusters).

I don't wanna imagine this. Would be too stressful for me to use Windows for development, PTSD.

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