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I have. It wasn't called wsl but bash on windows back then. You had to disable bunch of services related to scanning files (windows defender?) to make it barely

I have. It wasn't called wsl but bash on windows back then. You had to disable bunch of services related to scanning files (windows defender?) to make it barely usable but since v2, they are using a lightweight vm so the speeds are significantly better compared to what you got on bash on windows or wsl 1. I don't have anything to say about your other nitpick. A good reason to use windows is games, Adobe and office. Games using anti-cheat will not be available on linux and if you can get them to work, good luck not getting banned.

chrisandchris 7y ago
I agree, gaming and Office are major bonuses for Windows. And IMHO, the discussion about which OS one should use is probably older than any OS at all. It comes down to personal preferences and experiences. I would not for any longer time want to use only Windows for a couple of reasons. I use it for some office stuff (we have SharePoint and OneDrive for Businsess does not exist for Linux). I did a quick search and here are two references about the WSL speed: [1] https://vxlabs.com/2019/12/06/wsl2-io-measurements/ https://vxlabs.com/2019/12/06/wsl2-io-measurements/ [2] https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197 https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197 It seems that they already improved a lot bur are still nowhere near native FS speed because of some technical limiations on how to embed the FS.