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Re: Arch Linux adapted for Windows Subsystem for Linux

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Post by alphaneuron »

yellow_postit wrote: post #8

The FAQ link is broken on the page, any ELI5 on what this brings beyond using Arch's package manager and the general goodness of choice? Both of which are awesome in and of themselves, just wasn't sure if there's more here before I jump in.

From what I can gather from the BOW discussion (see my link below), it's a kind of custom arch distro (https://cdn.turbo.run/alwsl/alwsl.sfs). AFAIK WSL is just a rootfs extracted by the lxrun cmdlet. So I guess this replaces Microsoft's rootfs with arch. It seems to be modified to work around some issues in WSL.

Re: Arch Linux adapted for Windows Subsystem for Linux

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Post by virtuallynathan »

Longhanks wrote: post #7
kozikow wrote: post #6

I am currently dual booting between Arch Linux and Windows 10. Moving to something like this one day makes me conflicted. On one hand I feel like I would betray open source, on the other hand I wouldn't have to restart my machine to play games...

If your hardware supports it, you may be able to pull a 180 and run a Windows VM on the bare metal using hardware passthrough. There's a great community here: https://www.reddit.com/r/vfio

I do this, works great. Get >95% of native perf out of my GTX1070.

Re: Arch Linux adapted for Windows Subsystem for Linux

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Post by chrisper »

Kenji wrote: post #9
Longhanks wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If your hardware supports it, you may be able to pull a 180 and run a Windows VM on the bare metal using hardware passthrough. There's a great community here: https://www.reddit.com/r/vfio

Wow, that works? Video games are pretty much the last thing that holds me on Windows. Everything else is solved on Linux. I am very interested in any solution for this problem.

It works, but it requires some time investment. Not everyone has the same quirks, so you will have to play around a lot and try to find the cause of different issues.

Totally worth it imho. It allowed me to go Full Linux

Re: Arch Linux adapted for Windows Subsystem for Linux

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Post by tormeh »

briansteffens wrote: post #10
kozikow wrote: post #6

I am currently dual booting between Arch Linux and Windows 10. Moving to something like this one day makes me conflicted. On one hand I feel like I would betray open source, on the other hand I wouldn't have to restart my machine to play games...

Or you could just only play Linux games. I mean sure, you'll eventually get tired of Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of Mordor. But when that happens you can just play Shadow of Mordor.

Hehe, there's actually a pretty decent amount of games for Linux these days, but if you're an enthusiast then it's not enough.

Re: Arch Linux adapted for Windows Subsystem for Linux

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Post by ackalker »

Longhanks wrote: post #3

This pulls something from https://cdn.turbo.run/alwsl/alwsl.sfs - what's this URL? How can anyone tell this is related to Arch Linux? Why do the readmes link to 404s? All of this seems rather unfinished. Could have polished at least the github presence a little. Also, what are the advantages compared to solution like https://github.com/RoliSoft/WSL-Distribution-Switcher , which allows selecting different distribution…

> ...which allows selecting different distributions, including Arch Linux?

Sorry to rain on your parade, but there is _no_ official Arch Linux image on Docker[1], as you can easily verify[2]. Use at your own risk whatever Arch Linux image you happen to find on Docker Hub, such as this one[3]. It might work or it might break, but it ain't official.

[1]: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=214973

[2]: https://hub.docker.com/explore/

[3]: https://hub.docker.com/r/base/archlinux/

Re: Arch Linux adapted for Windows Subsystem for Linux

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Post by nyolfen »

briansteffens wrote: post #10
kozikow wrote: post #6

I am currently dual booting between Arch Linux and Windows 10. Moving to something like this one day makes me conflicted. On one hand I feel like I would betray open source, on the other hand I wouldn't have to restart my machine to play games...

Or you could just only play Linux games. I mean sure, you'll eventually get tired of Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of Mordor. But when that happens you can just play Shadow of Mordor.

anecdotal, but about 2/3 of the games in my steam library had linux versions available when i switched to desktop linux a couple of years ago. granted, i'm not exactly a aaa title kind of guy

Re: Arch Linux adapted for Windows Subsystem for Linux

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Post by gcb0 »

Kenji wrote: post #9
Longhanks wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If your hardware supports it, you may be able to pull a 180 and run a Windows VM on the bare metal using hardware passthrough. There's a great community here: https://www.reddit.com/r/vfio

Wow, that works? Video games are pretty much the last thing that holds me on Windows. Everything else is solved on Linux. I am very interested in any solution for this problem.

same. is this a selective process? i mean, can I allow access to my video card and but still not to the rest of the CPU/memory/storage?
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