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Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI

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Post by lobocinza » Wed, Sep 15, 2021, 8:18 AM UTC

NavinF wrote: post #470

lobocinza wrote: post #432

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1. My experience with Windows 10 is that there's a considerable chance that it will break after an update and refuse to boot requiring me to reinstall it. With Linux even when using bleeding edge Arch things rarely break and when they do I can see WHY and then FIX it. 2. Not a problem with AMD at least. 3. Mileage may vary 4. Ubuntu is a joke. Try Manjaro. 5. Learning curve is steep but you install Gnome or KDE and h…

1. shrug that hasn't been my experience. You also mentioned blue screens in another comment, but I've only seen one blue screen in the last decade and that one was my fault (RAM timings too tight; Surprised it lasted long enough to run a benchmark). 2. Like I told the other guy: "Yeah I'll just trade in my RTX 3090 for something that has half the performance and doesn't support tensorflow" 4. More fragmentation? If t…

4. Stability has nothing to do with reliability. I had less issues with Arch Linux than with Ubuntu LTS and I hear people say the same thing. Even Windows 10 is a rolling release OS. If you want a ready to use stable OS there's Manjaro where repositories are purposefully a bit behind Arch.

7. Decent is 1080p@60Hz, what most people play. What you want is extreme performance. Honestly 300fps at 4K is just absurd even on Windows unless you're playing an old game as CPU becomes a bottleneck and why would you need it? Do you have a 300fps display?

8. Never measured it but trying pw-loopback I don't see how whatever it's can be a problem even for competitive gaming.

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI

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Post by reissbaker » Wed, Sep 15, 2021, 8:44 AM UTC

Jnr wrote: post #450

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"It works for me on very specific, ancient hardware, and also don't use " isn't a great selling point for people who just want their machine to work and aren't bought into Linux On The Desktop as a philosophical ideal. That's why people use WSL2! Popular software works, popular hardware works, you can run Linux programs from the command line without installing and managing a separate VM yourself (yes, yes, it's virtu…

If you want a great Linux desktop experience, don’t buy Nvidia GPU’s. Intel and AMD has very good open source drivers, while Nvidia has only the proprietary ones and they are known to have all kinds of issues. There is a good reason Linus Torvalds said the famous words “fuck you Nvidia”. And major problem that still persists with WSL is the NFTS mounts in Linux. At work we can’t have decent compile times on Windows b…

WSL2 uses ext4, not NTFS. Just make sure the files live inside the WSL2 filesystem and not on the Windows host, and you're good to go.

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI

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Post by denysvitali » Sat, Sep 18, 2021, 10:37 AM UTC

tubby12345 wrote: post #402

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Just because there is no viable enterprise-ish Linux computer that fits those environments. Sadly :(

Definitely not true since (at least at FB) you can also get an auxiliary laptop (Thinkpad) with Linux (Fedora). Just that no one wants them.

It really depends on the company. In my limited experience I can say that only FAANGs will probably allow such an environment. Other big corporations aren't quite there yet.