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Re:WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history by flohofwoe on Saturday January 02, 2021 @09:45AM (#25613105)
I guess you'll have to use it to "believe" ;)

Setup is much less hassle, startup is much faster (one or two seconds) and resource usage is much lower than running Linux in a VM.

Also little things like VScode (running as Windows UI application) automatically detecting WSL and setting itself up to connect to the WSL side. To do the same for a VM requires at least to configure the SSL ports on the VM.

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Re:WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history by omk on Saturday January 02, 2021 @09:46AM (#25613113)
Being light-weight won it for me. And the hassle free setup to use the same disk on both environments.
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Re:WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history by tikkabhuna on Saturday January 02, 2021 @10:59AM (#25613633)
Docker for Windows using WSL2 as its engine is also nice. The Docker commands somehow (magically) get added to your Linux distro and you can mix and match how you like.
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