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by eddiecalzone 2081 days ago
> You get a lot of that on Mac though (well, less so on the gaming front, but Macs have some apps that aren't on Windows too). But that's "real" Linux, so you don't have to spend time installing GNU tooling or fighting with brew.

So instead I can run IntelliJ under WSL2? Nope, not until there's a performant X server. Ok, so under Windows, pointed at my Linux filesystem? Wouldn't there be dos2unix file format issues there? And it sounds like it's painfully slow for now until they fix the networking.

But this is somehow better than having to "brew install" a few things? I'm very eager to try this out, but I think WSL3 might be a better starting point.
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growse 2081 days ago
> So instead I can run IntelliJ under WSL2? Nope, not until there's a performant X server. Ok, so under Windows, pointed at my Linux filesystem? Wouldn't there be dos2unix file format issues there? And it sounds like it's painfully slow for now until they fix the networking.

What would the dos2unix issues be? Intellij on Windows can deal with and preserve all three line ending types, so it's not clear what the issue would be.

Can't say I've noticed any significant issues on performance. It does complain about filesystem case sensitivity (every time!), but it works pretty well overall.

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shados 2081 days ago
> And it sounds like it's painfully slow for now until they fix the networking.

That will depend on the size of the project. If you're dealing with tens of thousands of files, yeah. In JS-land the problem comes around node_modules folder. BUt a few hundreds or even thousands of files would be okay. Reads are actually quite fast (using ack/ag from Linux to search Windows isn't bad), it's writes that are awful.

Also there won't need to be a performant X Server. The solution they're working on is using a seemless RDP window, where everything works (including drag and drop between the Linux app and Windows)

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rbanffy 2081 days ago
> Wouldn't there be dos2unix file format issues there?

I assume you'll have debugger issues if IntelliJ sees a different OS than you want your apps seeing.

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fomine3 2080 days ago
LF on Windows is basically no problem unless you developing Windows OS specific things.
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