Initial Impressions of WSL 2
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Initial Impressions of WSL 2
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Re: Initial Impressions of WSL 2
#2I must say WSL2 has genuinely been huge for me, to the point where I've finally been able to ditch macOS for a desktop with a Ryzen CPU.
Honestly it's mindblowing how far Windows has come - if I were Apple I'd genuinely be scared of losing a large proportion of power-users as Windows becomes an increasingly viable platform for development.
Re: Initial Impressions of WSL 2
#3No free lunch, of course. Faster file access with WSL2 (vs WSL1), if you stay in the Linux world. But if you point it at Windows files (/mnt/c, etc), it's pretty slow.
WSL2 just moved the slowness from one side to the other. Accessing the Linux FS from Windows (\\wsl$\) is also slow.
That said, I am a fan, and get a lot of use out of WSL1. Since I don't use the Windows interop much, WSL2 should be a performance win for me.
Re: Initial Impressions of WSL 2
#4I must say WSL2 has genuinely been huge for me, to the point where I've finally been able to ditch macOS for a desktop with a Ryzen CPU. Honestly it's mindblowing how far Windows has come - if I were Apple I'd genuinely be scared of losing a large proportion of power-users as Windows becomes an increasingly viable platform for development.
How does it compare to real Linux distributions? Does it have a package manager? Is it like Debian? What are the limitations?
Re: Initial Impressions of WSL 2
#5> Smoother web development
Last I heard networking/sharing ports didn't work, has that been fixed or is there now a solution?
Re: Initial Impressions of WSL 2
#6Have they gotten networking transparency working to the degree that it was on WSL1 yet? I tried an earlier preview of WSL2 and ran into a bunch of issues here.
Re: Initial Impressions of WSL 2
#7I must say WSL2 has genuinely been huge for me, to the point where I've finally been able to ditch macOS for a desktop with a Ryzen CPU. Honestly it's mindblowing how far Windows has come - if I were Apple I'd genuinely be scared of losing a large proportion of power-users as Windows becomes an increasingly viable platform for development.
How does it compare to real Linux distributions? Does it have a package manager? Is it like Debian? What are the limitations?
It is a real Debian (or, by default, Ubuntu). Original packages from Debian's servers are used. You're using apt, as usual.
Re: Initial Impressions of WSL 2
#8I must say WSL2 has genuinely been huge for me, to the point where I've finally been able to ditch macOS for a desktop with a Ryzen CPU. Honestly it's mindblowing how far Windows has come - if I were Apple I'd genuinely be scared of losing a large proportion of power-users as Windows becomes an increasingly viable platform for development.
How does it compare to real Linux distributions? Does it have a package manager? Is it like Debian? What are the limitations?
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Re: Initial Impressions of WSL 2
#9> Smoother web development Last I heard networking/sharing ports didn't work, has that been fixed or is there now a solution?
Yup - all works now. If I start rails server I can access localhost:3000 from Firefox on windows, for example.
Re: Initial Impressions of WSL 2
#10I must say WSL2 has genuinely been huge for me, to the point where I've finally been able to ditch macOS for a desktop with a Ryzen CPU. Honestly it's mindblowing how far Windows has come - if I were Apple I'd genuinely be scared of losing a large proportion of power-users as Windows becomes an increasingly viable platform for development.
How does it compare to real Linux distributions? Does it have a package manager? Is it like Debian? What are the limitations?
WSL2 is a full blown emulator / virtualization solution, so it runs a real linux kernel / distribution. The largest downside to me is no gpu passthrough from the host.