3 ms·
Just minor issues: You need to be on the insider programmer which forces telemetry and means you have a PITA windows style upgrade every other week (and the na
by throwaway13249 7y ago
Just minor issues:
You need to be on the insider programmer which forces telemetry and means you have a PITA windows style upgrade every other week (and the nagging associated with it).
Whilst you can read /mnt/c/ you can't read virtual file systems such as Google drive stream /mnt/g/ is just empty.
You need to do a bit of fuckery like pinning your ssh-agent to a known file socket and test this in your bash/zsh startup - not a biggie since you arent starting this off your WM
No X support - there are third party x viewers though but not officially endorsed. So no apps like xkeynav and xkill.
None of the intellij ecosystem have WSL support - sure you can set the terminal to be use wsl.exe but stuff like using your WSL2 distro's openssh config or using the agent running in your WSL2 etc... arent there or coming, VSCode is lightyears ahead in this department due to the way its modelled. Sadly intellij team aren't thinking in the same way of the vscode team, so instead of proxying through a remote demon they are thinking of doing something like reading //wsl$/distro/home/you/.ssh/config instead, hacking WSL support in their ssh/git bits
- throwaway13249 7y agoNeed to set max memory in wslconfig too - not so well documented - otherwise your VM will just balloon to fill up all your RAM and windows and windows app will start swapping
- jstarks 7y agoWe are working on solving that. No promises that we will solve it completely the first time, but it should get better soon.
- throwaway8941 7y ago>None of the intellij ecosystem If you're doing C or C++ development, CLion does support WSL compilers/debuggers.
- throwaway13249 7y agoIt's all hacked in on intellij platform and reading their youtrack that their plan - each plugin bakes in WSL knowledge, where as VSCode basically launches a remote command proxy so it works the same weather WSL2 or a local vbox with ssh or a remote VPS and plugins dont need to change (or do so in a minor away). More an IntelliJ rant I guess
- rits 7y agoIf I got you right about ssh-agent, there is a console frontend https://www.funtoo.org/Keychain https://www.funtoo.org/Keychain.
- adar 7y ago> You need to be on the insider programmer which forces telemetry and means you have a PITA windows style upgrade every other week (and the nagging associated with it). FWIW you can upgrade to the Fast Ring version of Windows that gets you WSL 2 and then switch to the Slow Ring that only gives you updates every month or so.