Re:ChromeOS is Linux with Google’s desktop environment
by ksaj on Thursday October 05, 2023 @07:25PM
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The issue I see with WSL all the time is long waits as things start up. I have no idea what it's doing, but it is painfully slow starting nearly anything up. It's like drive reads are one character at a time or something! Once it gets going, things are fine.
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Re:ChromeOS is Linux with Google’s desktop environment
by d3w4s9 on Friday October 06, 2023 @07:18AM
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WSL still has a lot of problems. You can find lots of issues on github that are common problems but yet open for years without a solution. Examples:
* Slower IO -- not sure if this can ever be fixed, but quite a bummer * cpu utilization at 100% due to an issue with WSLg #6982 * no access to Internet when host is connected to VPN #5068 * very slow network in some situations #4901
These are not some edge cases -- they affect things that I use every day. Some of them have workarounds but overall this is still not very usable. I decided that it was easier to just get a separate machine and install Linux on it.