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Re:Windows 11 is amazing, I left Linux by fzimmermann89 on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @10:13AM (#38264221)
I thought the same, until I noticed a really annoying WSL2 bug: On two machines I own, waking up from hibernate or standby causes a wsl related process (vmmem) to consume 100% CPU, with wsl becoming completely unresponsive (including wsl terminate etc).

You have to kill all wsl processes, which requires admin rights. So without elevated rights, Ubuntu on windows is not usable on these laptops.

The issue is known for years and has hundreds of comments on GitHub without a fix (https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/6982)

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Re:Windows 11 is amazing, I left Linux by nyantaro1 on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @03:24PM (#38269187)
I ran into this issue as well. I also spent a few hours debugging problems with a database just to discover that I could not reach a server because WSL2 does not support IPV6 (https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4518)
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