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Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux just hit a major milestone
- MostlyInnocent 4y agoWindows naysayers (so, yeah, that's pretty much all of you: no need to raise your hand: just flag this comment, post your outrage in internal YC groups, and the universe will carry on regardless...) will disregard WSL as being confusing, too little too late, EEE, etc. But, in the real world? The 'Store' version of WSL (or, as you should call it, GNU/LSW, of course...) is actually pretty good. Previously, I mostly used WSL (néé GNU/LSW) to get a proper `dig` and `curl`, but in recent builds, I can actually run most previously Linux-only software that I'm interested in, as long as it targets Ubuntu x64. So, progress, I guess?
- dave4420 4y agoHow does performance compare to Linux-without-Windows? My understanding is that anything that writes lots of files (e.g. `git checkout`) is really slow, because AV scanners block when you close a file. Is that still the case? Not the case anymore? Never the case in the first place?
- IronWolve 4y agoI was playing with stable diffusion in ubuntu in wsl2 and/in windows 11, the hash rate seemed comparable.
- zamadatix 4y agoThey try to cover the confusing naming towards the end but this refers to what used to be WSL 2 hitting 1.0 and WSL 2 is more a standard VM with a similar performance profile.
- dave4420 4y agoAh, that’s good to know :)