I tried WSL a year ago. Filesystem was slow and it was slow everywhere. WSL2 improves that by offering fast fs on linux side. The boundary is still slow. For e

I tried WSL a year ago. Filesystem was slow and it was slow everywhere. WSL2 improves that by offering fast fs on linux side. The boundary is still slow. For example, if you go into /mnt/c and use git status on a large repo it will need to go through the boundary. It is slow (not painful but not pleasant) My current setup has all my source code on the linux fs (/home/user) and I access them using VSCode remote extensions. The performance is fine. I can't really tell if native macos experience or this is faster. I also tried JB iDEA. It works across the filesystem boundary and even if the access is slow, it does not reflect to real world usage much. But you'll feel it if you look for it. Another option is to run GUI apps on Linux side and use an X11 server on Windows. This just works fine and they recently announced that the WSL will have built in support for Linux GUI apps.