Ending Support for macOS and Linux

Re:Ending Support for macOS and Linux by Jnr on Friday January 24, 2020 @01:44AM (#22135921)

WSL has no real hardware access and still runs on NTFS which is terribly slow. Windows developers will probably try to fix it somehow but it is not there yet

Another option is to run Windows on top of Linux. But it currently also has some drawbacks.

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Re:Ending Support for macOS and Linux by sandGorgon on Friday January 24, 2020 @02:36AM (#22136145)

WSL2 (which im talking about ) is blazing fast. It runs a full linux kernel and not the WSL 1 NTFS emulation layer.

https://medium.com/swlh/wsl-2-docker-edge-tech-preview-nativ...

It has full Docker Edge support now and CUDA support is upcoming.

I'm genuinely impressed by WSL2

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Re:Ending Support for macOS and Linux by the_white_oak on Friday January 24, 2020 @01:48PM (#22141231)

NTFS is a file system, which WSL 2 still runs on. WSL 2 is much better, but NTFS is still dragging it back. I hope one day, Microsoft will make a leap and introduce a faster file system or a proper support with good drivers for ext4 or something like this.

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Re:Ending Support for macOS and Linux by pram on Friday January 24, 2020 @05:26AM (#22136912)

WSL2 is just a hyper-v container, which Docker for windows already used?

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Re:Ending Support for macOS and Linux by sandGorgon on Friday January 24, 2020 @06:38AM (#22137239)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwhMThePdIo&t=2818s

WinNT Kernel and Linux Kernel are running on top of Hypervisor platform side-by-side .... not one-in-the-other.

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