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by JoyrexJ9 1398 days ago
Not saying you're wrong about the windows support but when it comes to WSL, my entire department uses WSL for their primary development environment
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Ooh. I find it a bit painful. Stuff like watching for file changes if you mount C:/ don’t work. Adds friction to web dev for sure.
Dogshit IO performance when accessing native files makes it unusable for me.
I suggest never access native files, if you are still keeping your code in C:\ somewhere I think you're approaching WSL the wrong way. Go all in and I've never looked back
I'll second this. I treat WSL (2) as a Linux box I'm working on, which I can access via a terminal and \\wsl$ (and VS Code, crucially.)
This is why I don't use WSL 2. WSL 1 has much better performance when used on C:\