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I own no windows machines but afaik it should run OK on windows. Emacs is a pretty good application platform that glosses over lots of OS inconsistencies. :)
by ashton314 3y ago
I own no windows machines but afaik it should run OK on windows. Emacs is a pretty good application platform that glosses over lots of OS inconsistencies. :)
- raincole 3y agoI heard that some addons (like magit and vterm) run much worse on Windows than on Unix-like. That's my main concern. Maybe it's an outdated view tho.
- dan-robertson 3y agoThe big issue here is that spawning processes is (was?) much slower on windows. There’s also wsl2 where I think Emacs will work fine.
- ljm 3y agoI run it inside windows terminal on WSL2 and it's smooth as butter. Despite losing out on some GUI-specific features I think I prefer it.
- lost_tourist 3y agoStill is but it works pretty well under wsl.
- User912983 3y agoFrom what I remember magit is only slow on WSL, when interacting with a repository that is not located in the Linux subsystem i.e. laying in the windows user directory. But that might be wrong or also depend on other factors.
- louistsi 3y agoMagit worked perfectly fine when I was using Emacs on Windows, but nowadays I run it with gWSL on the only windows machine I own.