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Re:Windows is now an app for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and PCs by grumpyprole on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @02:30AM (#38360499)
WSL2 is still too buggy to recommend this - e.g. they still haven't fixed the 100% CPU on wake from sleep.
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Re:Windows is now an app for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and PCs by Zetobal on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @03:20AM (#38360875)
They are still using ram as a buffer for file transfer... absolute pain with big files.
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Re:Windows is now an app for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and PCs by winrid on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @02:33AM (#38360519)
wow, still? this was actually the final nail that drove me back to Linux. that was years ago!
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Re:Windows is now an app for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and PCs by uxp8u61q on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @02:44AM (#38360602)
What are you talking about? I use WSL2 every day. Issues are very rare (rarer than on my desktop that runs an actual linux distribution...). I've never encountered 100% cpu when waking up from sleep.
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Re:Windows is now an app for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and PCs by grumpyprole on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @03:28AM (#38360948)
I use it every day too. Issues are not rare. It can even bluescreen windows (docker garbage collect on a many core workstation). I would not recommend over Linux if one has a choice (I don't).
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Re:Windows is now an app for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and PCs by Banditoz on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @12:59AM (#38375222)
Oh thank goodness I wasn't the only one with this issue! My coworker uses WSL2 regularly and never ran into it...

That aside I think it's a pretty good substitute, but if your stack is already Linux adjacent anyway I think running Linux is best.

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