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Re:WSL2 can now mount Linux ext4 disks directly by terrortrain on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @10:05AM (#29162664)
Linux for laptop just isn't great in my experience. My desktop is Linux, and all is well.

But on all my laptops, I find things to just be to much of a PITA. Eg: hibernate, is way too buggy to depend on. Half the time something prevents hibernate, and my laptop is dead and/or over heated when I pull it out of my bag. The other half the time everything is bugged out when it comes out of hibernate.

I found that when I'm traveling, I'm happier with a very underpowered laptop, which has great battery life. I don't even use wsl. GitHub codespaces has been working well enough.

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Re:WSL2 can now mount Linux ext4 disks directly by flatiron on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @10:55AM (#29163383)
I have two laptops. MacBook Air 2013 and a thinkpad (I think w540?) and both run Linux perfectly. Way better than either macOS or Windows 10.
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Re:WSL2 can now mount Linux ext4 disks directly by rbanffy on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @04:44PM (#29167902)
All these reports would be useful with the maker and model of the affected laptop. I tend to pick the boring models and they mostly work, but knowing which ones work so badly (like the XPS 13 people mention) would be extremely helpful.
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