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by craz8 2485 days ago
I’m loving WSL2 on my Insiders build. But there are issues with local host networking and file updates to Windows apps right now that need to be worked around

But it is very fast!

The Insider build also green screens less often than the most recent general release did!

Having Github available for issues is great too, as you can see progress being made in fixing the bugs - I feel more connected then when I actually worked inside Microsoft!

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I'm curious, are you still experiencing issues with localhost networking? I'd read that as of build 18945, those issues should mostly be fixed. [1] Or is it that you're hosting applications on Windows and trying to access them from Linux?

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/whats-new-for-wsl...

Some people still are - mine now works. I think it depends on your Linux server binding to 127.0.0.1 or 0.0.0.0

I’m currently working on cross host code, so being forced to use the Hosts file actually helped me out!

I haven’t tried going from Linux to Windows via localhost though

I do have issues running multiple Selenium tests with a headless browser. Running 1 process works ok though