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by tenacious_tuna 1987 days ago
I actually have been trying this recently! I've been using VS Code via SSH into a WSL2 container running on my windows box and it's been going surprisingly well.... but that was after a moderate amount of effort to get WSL2 working to begin with, which was partially complicated by my past efforts of getting WSL1 to do similar behavior. I'm also not 100% confident NewCorp's IT would be kosher with me spooling that up. I could be wrong, but it seemed easier to go with the lower-number-of-abstractions-to-get-an-acceptable-experience via mac at the time.

Though who knows! Maybe I'll change my mind and get a new machine :)
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searchableguy 1987 days ago
> that was after a moderate amount of effort to get WSL2 working to begin with, which was partially complicated by my past efforts of getting WSL1 to do similar behavior.

Could you explain more?

I know installing and switching to WSL2 isn't as straightforward on windows stable. Is that what you are referring to?

If so, on insider - you can run wsl --install and it will work.

If not running wsl2 by default, wsl --set-default-version 2

I think they could make it easy to onboard users by setting better defaults and decreasing friction.

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tenacious_tuna 1985 days ago
I had to fight with enabling/disabling Hyper-V in windows features for a while, and also somewhere I flashed the BIOS on my motherboard and it reset my virtualization-enable switch to "off" (which I guess was the default?)

50/50 PEBKAC and Windows being difficult, IMO, but my total unfamiliarity with troubleshooting windows made the process a bit more annoying than I felt it ought to be.

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