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by wsargent 2621 days ago
Started using this yesterday, with the X410 X11 install.

The nicest thing has to be running IntelliJ from X11 and have it see the linux filesystem.

I can run a Yubikey with weasel-pageant and get GPG signing and SSH keychain access to github through it -- it pops up a Windows PIN entry dialog box and then works fine thereafter. You can use wslutilities (wslusc) to set up windows shortcuts to your Linux applications. I use ConEmu as my shell and it's fine.

There is a problem with HiDPI screens. I've worked around this by increasing the font size in IntelliJ, but VS Code shows up as teensy tiny.

The worst part has to be the documentation. The docs for "pengwin-setup" is basically a bunch of screenshots on their blog.