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Having WSL really has made me mostly stop dual-booting. While I have a Ubuntu installation for when I need a full blown Linux environment, I don't do that much
by munchbunny 7y ago
Having WSL really has made me mostly stop dual-booting. While I have a Ubuntu installation for when I need a full blown Linux environment, I don't do that much development that requires a full blown Linux environment. When I'm working on hobby projects like small web apps, I have a hybrid setup using VSCode from Windows but using Bash via Ubuntu on WSL for the in-IDE terminal, which means the actual server is running from Node on Linux. For fairly vanilla web dev needs, it feels like the best of both worlds - I can even have Photoshop open on the same computer writing into the same drive.
My only gripe was how slow containers in WSL were on Windows, but with WSL2 that issue is going away.
- battery_cowboy 7y agoFile access on wsl2 is still so slow compared to native Ubuntu, but it's much better than before.