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WSL has no real hardware access and still runs on NTFS which is terribly slow. Windows developers will probably try to fix it somehow but it is not there yet A
by Jnr 7y ago
WSL has no real hardware access and still runs on NTFS which is terribly slow.
Windows developers will probably try to fix it somehow but it is not there yet
Another option is to run Windows on top of Linux. But it currently also has some drawbacks.
- sandGorgon 7y agoWSL2 (which im talking about ) is blazing fast. It runs a full linux kernel and not the WSL 1 NTFS emulation layer. https://medium.com/swlh/wsl-2-docker-edge-tech-preview-native-linux-containers-w-o-emulation-b41667e6dbef https://medium.com/swlh/wsl-2-docker-edge-tech-preview-nativ... It has full Docker Edge support now and CUDA support is upcoming. I'm genuinely impressed by WSL2
- pram 7y agoWSL2 is just a hyper-v container, which Docker for windows already used?
- sandGorgon 7y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwhMThePdIo&t=2818s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwhMThePdIo&t=2818s WinNT Kernel and Linux Kernel are running on top of Hypervisor platform side-by-side .... not one-in-the-other.
- the_white_oak 7y agoNTFS is a file system, which WSL 2 still runs on. WSL 2 is much better, but NTFS is still dragging it back. I hope one day, Microsoft will make a leap and introduce a faster file system or a proper support with good drivers for ext4 or something like this.