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WSL Hello Sudo: Face Recognition of Windows Hello on Windows Subsystem for Linux

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Re: WSL Hello Sudo: Face Recognition of Windows Hello on Windows Subsystem for Linux

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Post by tester34 »

franga2000 wrote: post #38
kbumsik wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Glad to see I am not the only one. Windows desktop also has a big plus: native RDP is unparalleled compared to VNC or any other Linux remote desktop.

It's true that VNC is a disaster, but RDP still feels miles behind thrid-party tech like TeamViewer. And doesn't MSFT stil cripple RDP on Home editions?

Is it actually miles behind?

I've used RDP to work remotely and also to play some games inside Hyper-V VM and I didn't felt big difference between native

Re: WSL Hello Sudo: Face Recognition of Windows Hello on Windows Subsystem for Linux

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Post by quietbritishjim »

jjjeii3 wrote: post #51
anhner wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you deal with performance issues with files not on the linux machine?

There is no performance issues with WSL2. It was only the case with the first version of WSL.

WSL2 has better performance for accessing files in the WSL filesystem than WSL1 does (partly because the WSL files are stored differently).

But it has worse performance for accessing native Windows files than WSL1 does.

In any case I think an assertion that WSL2 has no performance issues needs a serious citation (as opposed to no citation which you gave) - you're making a claim about all possible situations. As always, a statement that "no x exists" requires seriously more proof than "at least one x does exist".

Re: WSL Hello Sudo: Face Recognition of Windows Hello on Windows Subsystem for Linux

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Post by oblio »

franga2000 wrote: post #56
oblio wrote: post #53

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I don't know what their thought process was when they decided it, but they for sure knew it was going to be painful for users. I imagine they didn't have any other way to do it. If they don't do it, everyone complains that the Control Panel is getting antiquated, if they do it, people complain why they're changing it like this. We have to be realistic here.

It's definitely a tough situation, but they did in the the dumbest way possible. By intentionally hiding old menus before the new ones are fixed, they have effectively broken the OS itself for the vast majority of users. My favorite example of this is the sound output setting. Windows has two output "streams" - communication and media. The old menu used to have a "set default" button that set a device to default for…

Which version is this in? I'm on 1909 and there is still a link to the Sound Control Panel in the top right menu of the Sound Settings page.

Re: WSL Hello Sudo: Face Recognition of Windows Hello on Windows Subsystem for Linux

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Post by oblio »

pmontra wrote: post #60
oblio wrote: post #47

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> You can't possibly be defending the shitshow that is the Win10 setting menu! It's a humongous engineering project and I can see what they're doing. It's a super painful and long transition, but where they've finished the transition, I like it. Very nicely organized, searchable, it makes a lot of sense, it's consistent. It's a great UI, we're just in the middle of the construction site.

Those tiny non resizable windows and dialogs coming straight from Windows 95. Are they really getting rid of them?

Yup. I think they're binning everything and replacing it with the new UI. It's just literally taking a decade.

The new UI seems to be very forward facing, I suspect that they're targeting everything with it: desktop, mobile, even AR/VR.

Re: WSL Hello Sudo: Face Recognition of Windows Hello on Windows Subsystem for Linux

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Post by oblio »

1234throwaway wrote: post #57
oblio wrote: post #36

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Well, what can I say, good for you :-) >No, I don't want to update Why don't you want to update? You really should. > I don't want a voice assistant It takes less than 5 minutes to disable and hide it. > I don't want absurd UIs How do you define absurd UIs? Do you think 1 billion people using Windows are all absurd? If so, that's highly arrogant of you. > I don't want telemetry It's a bit annoying and philosophically…

>Why don't you want to update? You really should. sorry guys i cant export that report for this mornings meeting for another 45 minutes as the copy of that proprietary software we're required to use by regulations in this country is... on the windows computer that has decided to update >How do you define absurd UIs? have you ever tried using windows 10 control panel? >It's a bit annoying and philosophically not a gre…

Well, is your PC workstation from your company? For various (many of them obsolete) reasons, companies load a ton of management crap on Windows systems. That software is not as available on MacOS, let alone Linux desktop, so they don't because they can't.

Re: WSL Hello Sudo: Face Recognition of Windows Hello on Windows Subsystem for Linux

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Post by neogodless »

anhner wrote: post #45
jjjeii3 wrote: post #44

To me developing with WSL2 is now even better than on native Linux - works exceptionally well. I use it with VS Code + WSL plugin and Docker for Windows.

How do you deal with performance issues with files not on the linux machine?

For me, this hasn't been an issue. I think number one is just that I don't have to do this often. Perhaps sometimes I download a file with my Windows browser and save it locally, and then want to get to it in WSL2. Maybe I'll copy it somewhere locally, or since it's just a one-off, grab it. And performance doesn't seem like a problem. All drives are NVMe SSD. Perhaps if you have use cases where you're managing/editing a lot of files between file systems, it could add up to some frustration.

Re: WSL Hello Sudo: Face Recognition of Windows Hello on Windows Subsystem for Linux

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Post by lambda_dn »

alexdumitru wrote: post #4

This looks great. I hate Linux desktop and Windows server, so WSL has been a blessing for me.

I would be on KDE if I didn't have to use Visual Studio for my day job (project is still not fully .NET core). But WSL is a good compromise I use it as my shell for all git, dotnet related stuff.

Re: WSL Hello Sudo: Face Recognition of Windows Hello on Windows Subsystem for Linux

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Post by neogodless »

franga2000 wrote: post #56
oblio wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know what their thought process was when they decided it, but they for sure knew it was going to be painful for users. I imagine they didn't have any other way to do it. If they don't do it, everyone complains that the Control Panel is getting antiquated, if they do it, people complain why they're changing it like this. We have to be realistic here.

It's definitely a tough situation, but they did in the the dumbest way possible. By intentionally hiding old menus before the new ones are fixed, they have effectively broken the OS itself for the vast majority of users. My favorite example of this is the sound output setting. Windows has two output "streams" - communication and media. The old menu used to have a "set default" button that set a device to default for…

I'm on the latest release version (20H2). If you go to Settings > Sound, there's a Related Settings heading, under which you'll find Sound Control Panel. There's the list of output devices where you can Set Default, and there's a tab for Communications, though there's not a lot in there. Is that what you're talking about?

Re: WSL Hello Sudo: Face Recognition of Windows Hello on Windows Subsystem for Linux

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Post by kungito »

jjjeii3 wrote: post #44

To me developing with WSL2 is now even better than on native Linux - works exceptionally well. I use it with VS Code + WSL plugin and Docker for Windows.

I prefer remoting through vscode into a remote dev machine so that I can work on my laptop from wherever with amazing build times
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