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I'm still on 1, but admittedly this is the last time I ever set something up on WSL. VMs are still superior, at least for me.
by junon 3y ago
I'm still on 1, but admittedly this is the last time I ever set something up on WSL. VMs are still superior, at least for me.
- WorldMaker 3y agoWSL2 is basically the VM solution (the distro and unix files are installed into a VHD just like a VM; the "real" Linux kernel runs directly on top of Hyper-V, the Windows hypervisor, as opposed to WS1 having the NT Kernel acting like Linux), so it may be a "best of both worlds" for you if you were to try "upgrading" your WSL to it.
- junon 3y agoI tried, it didn't work. The upgrade hangs and then never completes. Known issue apparently. Plus git on WSL2 has had a lot of issues in the past to make me not want to upgrade. Also worth mentioning that using portable VM disks is easier with other softwares than it is with WSL.