[selectodude]

Au contraire, I run models on WSL and my desktop reliably wakes up from sleep. Best of both worlds.

[scotty79]

Watch out for VRAM/RAM. When programs on WSL tired to take more than there was available it was crashing my WSL hard and even corrupting files on the virtual drive attached to WSL in a very strange manner that made recent files just disappear. I had at leat two projects that had to be rebuilt from past conversation with AI because all their files were gone after few crashes.

I asked codex to write WSL config to prevent crashes. It put some limits on WSL and the situation stabilized, but I lost all trust for WSL anyways.

[fallinditch]

What are the config settings you needed?

TIA

[scotty79]

That's my wslconfig file located in my %USERPROFILE% dir:

    [wsl2]
    memory=40GB
    processors=8
    swap=8GB
    swapFile=C:\\wsl-swap.vhdx
    localhostForwarding=true
    guiApplications=false
    vmIdleTimeout=30000
    maxCrashDumpCount=3
    
    [experimental]
    autoMemoryReclaim=gradual

I have 64GB of RAM and 24GB of VRAM.

[MrDrMcCoy]

Genuine question: what are the good parts of Windows that keep you there? I've been such a happy gamer/coder/media editor on Linux for so long that I really don't understand how Microsoft isn't dead yet.

[selectodude]

My desktop is a game console and the games I play work on windows. And my computer reliably wakes from sleep.

[MrDrMcCoy]

My Linux laptop and desktop both handle gaming and waking from sleep just fine. I'd be more surprised if they didn't. You might like CachyOS or Bazzite if you try it.