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I tried to do it the year before last. Bought a desktop and made an honest attempt to switch. I sold the PC last month and am back solely on Mac. I'm a web dev
by aosaigh 7y ago
I tried to do it the year before last. Bought a desktop and made an honest attempt to switch. I sold the PC last month and am back solely on Mac.
I'm a web developer and found that the filesystem/IO performance on WSL was woeful. An "npm install" that would take 20 seconds on Mac would take 2/3 minutes if not more on WSL. That on its own was a deal breaker. Other things with regard to folder sharing across Windows/WSL was also a realy challenge. Finally, the Windows experience itself I felt was poor. Many of the subtle things I had become used to on Mac are completely missing (preview for example)
- cercatrova 7y agoWSL 2 has changed a lot, as it's now a native Linux container. The speed therefore is also native. Be aware however that WSL 2 still requires Windows Insider builds, although on the slow lane as of November.