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@grumpyoldaf
Dual booting Linux on a Laptop is a pain in the arse and a VM uses more recourses.
So WSL is the best solution. -
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@bkwilliams I'm not in fast ring, this is based on a medium article.
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@Batburger just curious, which article is it you read?
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@Batburger @KasperNS per https://devblogs.microsoft.com/comm... it’s part of build 18917 and per https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/... that build is only on Fast Ring.
While the code may work on other builds, I would in no way say it is supported and any performance issues are valid. -
@bkwilliams Sorry I'm not following... What is not supported..? And also yes, nobody has argued against the fact that WSL 2 is only in fast ring?
Hats off to this lady .... I would have just flipped the machine
Tl;Dr:
The new windows subsystem for Linux might severely slow compilation time for me.
Microsoft is releasing a preview of WSL 2 which works fundamentally different to WSL 1, which I currently use.
For those who don't know, WSL (or Windows Subsystem for Linux) used to be a compatibility layer, which "translated" Linux syscalls to Windows syscalls. This enables the execution of Linux applications on Windows. The new WSL (WSL 2) doesn't do any of that, instead, it is a highly optimised Virtual Machine.
So don't get me wrong from a performance point of view there is no Issue, RAM and CPU usage is truly astonishingly small and performance of Linux applications is much improved over WSL 1.
BUT, apparently, accessing files stored on Windows through Linux is now piss slow.
Great, truly outstanding.
Why is this a problem? Well, I use WSL to develop c++ Linux applications using CLion, the way this works is that you set up an ssh server in WSL, which CLion uses to do compilations.
One _needs_ to have the project files stored on Windows as otherwise CLion on Windows can't access them.
If I wanted a Linux VM I would have installed one.
Urgh.
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