Windows 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.
They 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.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 17.2 ms ] threadBut, 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?
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?