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> MSWin running in a VM on Linux is faster than on hardware. That's funny. I didn't know that. Any data source you can share with me?
Apps certainly have been for a long time. IE6 was famously (in my parts) known for being perceivably faster under Wine.
I'm so confused right now. I looked at the various links and cant believe I still can't figure this out. The kernel is windows or linux? How do I get or run this? I install windows and then this? Someone help me out here!
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheYearOfLinuxOnTheWindowsDes...
Pengwin looks like a Linux distro that removes the parts of a traditional distro that don't make sense in WSL and streamlines things that are still somewhat difficult in WSL, like getting X applications running.
I'm so confused right now. I looked at the various links and cant believe I still can't figure this out. The kernel is windows or linux? How do I get or run this? I install windows and then this? Someone help me out here!
This allows you to run a Linux userspace on Windows. The Windows store has (for free) installable distros for Ubuntu, Debian, and others.
I'm so confused right now. I looked at the various links and cant believe I still can't figure this out. The kernel is windows or linux? How do I get or run this? I install windows and then this? Someone help me out here!
WSL is a Windows 10 feature that allows you to run Linux applications on the NT kernel. It's not a 100% complete implementation of every Linux kernel API (yet?) but it's far enough along that you can run a lot of interesting software. https://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheYearOfLinuxOnTheWindowsDes... Pengwin looks like a Linux distro that removes the parts of a traditional distro that don't make sense in WSL and streaml…
Prebuilt OS image is just a single download and deploy.
Is WSL multithreaded? I love the ease of use that WSL gives, but it seems slow to cygwin on disk access. I think this is planned in a future fox by making the WSL directory to the disk instead of in a container file. I went back to cygwin for faster speed of scripts processing files.
I noticed file IO was slow too. My solution is to do most of my work in headless Linux VMs, using WSL as the interface to manage and connect to those VMs. This way I get the bash shell and ssh client I love but get isolated environments for my projects/clients. I run samba on the Linux VMs, with mapped drives on the Windows host so that I can edit files using VS Code. Outwardly it might look a little convoluted but I…
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I don’t believe your assertion. A quick check on the latest system-taxing application (aka a game), confirms the exact opposite. Even a cross-platform game, compiled natively for both OSes, runs faster on Windows in most cases. How do you square these observations with your assertion.
I assume you are limiting your definition of "system-taxing" to playing games specifically? As other people have noted, filesystem performance is often better under Linux. I also will point out that at least some rendering tasks can be faster under Linux as well: http://blog.thepixelary.com/post/167616662857/improving-perf... Just like with the filesystem performance discrepancy, this article seems to point out WDDM…
(Not because it's using secret system calls, but because its design was vetted and performance tailored for Linux.)
I'm so confused right now. I looked at the various links and cant believe I still can't figure this out. The kernel is windows or linux? How do I get or run this? I install windows and then this? Someone help me out here!
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WSL is a Windows 10 feature that allows you to run Linux applications on the NT kernel. It's not a 100% complete implementation of every Linux kernel API (yet?) but it's far enough along that you can run a lot of interesting software. https://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheYearOfLinuxOnTheWindowsDes... Pengwin looks like a Linux distro that removes the parts of a traditional distro that don't make sense in WSL and streaml…
I get it that WSL is easy for anyone to use but why not just run a real Linux in VMware or VirtualBox and you'll have 100% compatible Linux environment. Prebuilt OS image is just a single download and deploy.