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Re:Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014) by aeyes on Sunday November 15, 2020 @09:52PM (#25107445)
Shared filesystem performance on WSL2 is anything but amazing and pretty much everything I want it for depends heavily on the filesystem.

Native I/O performance is good but without shared files, WSL2 doesn't have any benefits over a VM.

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Re:Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014) by 3PS on Sunday November 15, 2020 @10:47PM (#25107737)
WSL2 has lots of benefits over a typical VM. It's a lot faster than your average type 2 VM (e.g. VirtualBox), it cold boots quickly, and you can run servers on localhost out of the box and access them through a regular Windows browser. I enjoy using it for Jupyter notebooks.

Plus WSL2 has way better tooling integration than most VMs - Windows Terminal, VSCode, etc. work well. I've found the experience compelling enough that I don't see much reason to dual boot Linux outside of CUDA applications (which are also supported now on Insiders.)

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Re:Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014) by heavyset_go on Monday November 16, 2020 @12:50AM (#25108517)
Linux got virtio-fs[1] capabilities as of Linux 5.4, and a driver for Windows guests was released recently. Along with VFIO passthrough, you can have accelerated and nearly native speed Windows guests on Linux if WSL2 isn't working out.

[1] https://virtio-fs.gitlab.io/

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