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A comment on Ask HN: What do you think of WSL? Would you switch to Windows?.

Re:Ask HN: What do you think of WSL? Would you switch to Win... by aosaigh on Monday June 01, 2020 @06:51PM (#23385012)
I sincerely tried to switch from Mac to Windows for development (mainly web). It was just too slow on IO. Installing NPM packages could take literally 10 minutes on WSL. This says as much about the state of JS dev as it does about WSL but it was just not fast enough in general. Outside of WSL, Windows just wasn’t intuitive enough either. Everything you take for granted on Mac is missing from Windows.
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Re:Ask HN: What do you think of WSL? Would you switch to Win... by tdom on Monday June 01, 2020 @07:39PM (#23385409)
The extremely slow IO has been fixed with WSL 2, with IO performance being approx 8% slower than running Linux natively.
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