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charcircuittoday at 9:15 AM2 repliesview on HN

Have you tried docker or WSL2. Modern virtualization should make it possible to seamlessly run Linux while in Windows.


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mzajctoday at 12:53 PM

I have, and compared to just running Linux it's not very good. For starters, the shared filesystem is incredibly slow, there is no hardware passthrough support out of the box (even for USB), the graphics support is incomplete and there's lots of non-standard defaults like custom kernel images and a custom init. That's on top of all the bugs and horrible error reporting.

It still beats Windows, but given the choice, I'd much rather just use Linux properly and have all of this just work than waste my time fiddling with WSL/WSL2.

arccytoday at 12:06 PM

nobody should support MicroSlop

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