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Re:Ubuntu now available from the Windows store by microcolonel on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @03:23AM (#14742201)
For what it's worth, WSL appears to have pretty terrible filesystem performance. This may not be noticeable for somebody coming from macOS, but definitely very noticeable coming from a real EXT4 or XFS Linux system.

I frankly don't understand why anyone would care to run anything but Linux on their workstation if their production deployments are Linux.

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Re:Ubuntu now available from the Windows store by partiallogic on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @03:54AM (#14742328)
Exactly, I already choose Macs as the build time on a 15” MacBook Pro from 2015 is half that of a 2016 XPS 15” running Windows 10. It’s twice again if you use WSL on the Dell. Fedora natively on the Dell gets a lot closer to the Mac
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