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by spmcbride1201 2627 days ago
I'm a paying customer that's been running my main dev system on WSL and Pengwin for four months now. I've got it on my ThinkPad and my beefy desktop and sync the two environments using .dotfiles. There is a bit of an I/O slowdown compared to native (most noticable when npm installing a billion tiny modules), but generally everything is quite functional. No driver issues as when I've run Linux. No terrible Mac keyboard. I run VSCode under WSL to keep my dev toolchain on the Linux side. The main thing that forces me to dual boot to Ubuntu is CUDA development, but I find that most of this sort of work has shifted to Jupyter Notebook.
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What's the main benefit of this distro over the standard Ubuntu usually offered for WSL?