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by Gene_Parmesan 2044 days ago
Running an npm install for an app of moderate complexity on WSL1 was such a painful experience that it turned me off of using the service for work dev entirely. Now with WSL2 it's much better, and I use it daily to the point where I have done away with my dual boot. (I still keep around a Linux notebook for edge cases.)

Obviously this is only re: fs perf, I can't speak to your other issues which do seem quite challenging. But I can definitely understand why they would have seen fs perf as a priority.