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Re:Emacs 26.3 by ohithereyou on Thursday August 29, 2019 @07:32AM (#20828528)
The Windows version is complete unusable for me because of how slow magit is on Windows (though that's not the fault of magit or emacs).

I haven't yet tried WSL (I run Windows on a work issued laptop), so my emacs sessions run in a Linux VM to get acceptable performance.

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Re:Emacs 26.3 by kjar on Thursday August 29, 2019 @09:10AM (#20829127)
Hehe insane, you get better performance in a virtualized environment! I understand why that could be but virtualization overhead exceeding native performance is bonkers.
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Re:Emacs 26.3 by nightchalk16 on Thursday August 29, 2019 @07:57AM (#20828676)
You can give WSL2 a try. It has speed improvements.
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Re:Emacs 26.3 by krylon on Thursday August 29, 2019 @07:41AM (#20828575)
> how slow magit is on Windows

I am relieved, though, that it's not just me.

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Re:Emacs 26.3 by favadi on Thursday August 29, 2019 @08:30AM (#20828866)
From my experience, Anything that launches subprocesses is slow on Windows.
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Re:Emacs 26.3 by goatinaboat on Thursday August 29, 2019 @08:11AM (#20828759)
I use Emacs in Debian on WSL with X410 and it’s fine, no perceptible lag.

Git is definitely slower in Windows

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Re:Emacs 26.3 by rhabarba on Thursday August 29, 2019 @07:35AM (#20828539)
Gnus is unusably slow for me. I wonder if that is related to Windows as well...
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