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Re:WSL for Development in Windows 10 Is the New Kool-Aid. St... by flak48 on Sunday September 06, 2020 @07:35AM (#24390673)
I tried my best to use WSL but ran into a never ending list of issues 'this is a known issue with WSL' or 'known to not work with WSL, try updating to WSL2' whenever I tried to use fairly common tools. A lot of things like React Native with Expo was still extremely flaky/impossible to use.

Setting up ConEmu with WSL2 is still painful and WSL/WSL2 still freezes randomly.

Ultimately I just installed Linux on an external SSD and it worked like a charm. Bye bye WSL

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Re:WSL for Development in Windows 10 Is the New Kool-Aid. St... by jpalomaki on Sunday September 06, 2020 @07:45AM (#24390713)
No experience with Conemu and WSL, but Windows Terminal [1] provides smooth experience.

WSL2 has a completely new approach than WSL1, so compatibility is better.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal

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Re:WSL for Development in Windows 10 Is the New Kool-Aid. St... by flak48 on Sunday September 06, 2020 @08:13AM (#24390822)
Even after reading a gazillion posts about setting up and using WSL/WSL2 I had no idea something like Windows Terminal existed!

Someone seems to have made a Quake style dropdown too for it: https://github.com/flyingpie/windows-terminal-quake which I absolutely need

Probably wouldn't have wasted so much time trying to get ConEmu/Cmder to work with WSL if I had known.

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Re:WSL for Development in Windows 10 Is the New Kool-Aid. St... by stOneskull on Sunday September 06, 2020 @07:55AM (#24390748)
windows terminal is good for opening powershell and wsl2 linux shell together. cmd as well. it's handy sometimes but i still find myself using powershell and cmd more than linux though.
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Re:WSL for Development in Windows 10 Is the New Kool-Aid. St... by sirkarthik on Sunday September 06, 2020 @08:47AM (#24390980)
It used to be so but is so much better and stable these days. For every such issue that I have faced, I have put it as ProTips in one blog post, esp. for my own reference, as much as for others going through similar experience. Follow it all, and you too should fall in love with the workflow ;)
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