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As slow as Windows is (very), once you start adding the corporate security tools on top of it (Crowdstrike) and have to deal with a slow and buggy corporate DNS
by beart 4mo ago
As slow as Windows is (very), once you start adding the corporate security tools on top of it (Crowdstrike) and have to deal with a slow and buggy corporate DNS system, it just becomes unusable.
The only way I can do anything timely now is through WSL.
- vachina 4mo agoYeh. The unix VNC session I connect to is snappier than the client host it is running on.
- ExoticPearTree 4mo ago> The only way I can do anything timely now is through WSL. There's your mistake, if do it faster, you're going to get more work assigned. If you do it as Windows speed you get to do less work. Same money.
- nxc18 4mo agoTrue, those things make Windows unusable. They also make the Mac worse, but not so much worse that it isn’t an absolute breath of fresh air compared to any corporate provided Windows device.
- yoyohello13 4mo agoYeah, I'm worried about the day when infosec turns it's eye toward WSL. So far they have turned a blind eye, but just wait until someone cooks up an exploit targeting WSL...
- fluoridation 4mo agoIt's "just" a Hyper-V VM with some extra drivers to talk to the sibling VM. There isn't much special about it that should worry you too much.
- sparqlittlestar 4mo agoWell, I'd like to tell security that
- esikich 4mo agoIn my experience they just block it in corporate environments.
- doubled112 4mo agoThey don't explicitly block it in my org, but connecting to VPN while it's running breaks the networking inside WSL. Sometimes it is routed from the VPN, sometimes it is DNS, sometimes it just needs a restart. I'm not sure if that situation has improved. There were some workarounds at one point.
- veber-alex 4mo ago[dead]
- lavataco 4mo agoI’ve been experimenting with windows 11 IoT enterprise this week. You can disable and uninstall a fair amount of cruft