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Devils advocate I upgraded last week (after holding off for a long time) and it's working well for me. Memory management seems much better with WSL / in general
by nullandvoid 4y ago
Devils advocate I upgraded last week (after holding off for a long time) and it's working well for me. Memory management seems much better with WSL / in general (not having to restart nearly as much). I make use of virtual desktops a lot, and the no animation when switching between them is a nice QOL, but one I couldn't go back on.
You can make everything less hostile quickly by removing the search bar, and removing the "search web" feature in start menu etc in a couple of minutes.
- tracker1 4y agoWSL virtual environment will allocate memory during use, but won't release it... in earlier releases it would use up everything... in more recent versions (not sure when the cut from 10/11 was), it will limit to half system ram... You can set this manually with a config file in your home directory. WSLg is limited to Win11 though, even though it was in the insiders builds for 10 before 11 came out. Win11 isn't too bad, but the increases in effectively advertorial software, ads in search results and breaking twice on me, my desktop is on my Linux drive most of the time, and I'll probably remove my Windows drive altogether (nvme/pcie adapter) for a 10gb nic.
- khaledh 4y ago> WSLg is limited to Win11 though WSLg added support for Windows 10 recently. Run `wsl --update` to get the latest version.
- tracker1 4y agoAt this point, the only Windows system I use is my work computer, and it's too locked down for me to update WSL or Windows to a new release cycle (21H2). Glad WSLg is on Win10 at this point though... Was really a turning point imo for working inside WSL... VS Code remote dev is also invaluable, but not the same as actual *nix apps.