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…months you have to stop WSL and run a scary command line tool to get your hard drive space back. https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4699?ref=blog.dan.dr...

comment by nailer · 2023-06-19 · in WSL 1.3.10 Brings Experimental Memory Reclaim, Updated DXCore and Linux Kernel

I'm waiting for https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/10006 to be resolved without using the work around mentioned in that issue and all the duplicate issues closed before it, before I can reliably recommend the less technical folks on…

comment by leovander · 2023-06-19 · in WSL 1.3.10 Brings Experimental Memory Reclaim, Updated DXCore and Linux Kernel

At leat latests versions, coming from the store or just baked from https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/releases . As per [1] One invokes GET-CimInstance -query "SELECT * from Win32_DiskDrive" in Powershell to list devices and then, wsl…

comment by jesuslop · 2023-06-16 · in WinFsp · Windows File System Proxy

WSL2 is great if you're stuck on Windows, but it's still really not there yet. For example: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/8725

comment by howinteresting · 2023-02-22 · in AMD CEO: The Next Challenge Is Energy Efficiency

…11 gives a blue screen of death boot loop on my laptop. Seems to be related to this 3 year old bug: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4784

comment by laech · 2023-02-14 · in GPU Video acceleration in the Windows Subsystem for Linux now available

…libraries like OpenAI Whisper under WSL once issues with soundcards in WSL [1] are addressed. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/7327

comment by yellow_postit · 2023-02-14 · in GPU Video acceleration in the Windows Subsystem for Linux now available

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/2395 This is still a problem with WSL2, at least on my WSL2 with Windows file system mappings. I tried to use instructions that use fossil from the hctree page: https://sqlite.org/hctree/doc/hctree/do…

comment by thesz · 2023-02-03 · in Blink virtual machine now supports running GUI programs

…t.com/r/zfs/comments/10lcnpk/zfs_raw_passth... ), first using a WSL2 kernel with the option enabled ( https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/8564 and https://github.com/bioluks/WSL2-Linux-Kernel-NTFS ) then WSL1. I have a dual NVMe setup…

comment by csdvrx · 2023-02-03 · in Blink virtual machine now supports running GUI programs

Yeah there's one from an ms dev here: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425...

comment by fidgewidge · 2023-01-14 · in The evolution of Unix facilities and architecture (2017)

I’ve come to realize the Windows networking stack is bonkers: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/9354 If I could get every game running on Linux, I’d never boot into it.

comment by withinboredom · 2022-12-24 · in How Asus and a Microsoft Bug Almost Broke Remote Work

…upgraded / non-Preview version doesn't. I don't know how they dare remove that preview tag. [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/9059 [2]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/a-preview-of-wsl-...

comment by chazeon · 2022-11-16 · in Windows Subsystem For Linux a.k.a. WSL 1.0.0 released

…imho, look at the changelog.. The critical high CPU issue [1] is yet fixed unfortunately. [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/6982

comment by chawyehsu · 2022-11-16 · in Windows Subsystem For Linux a.k.a. WSL 1.0.0 released

…on windows? Or is it another part of windows that slows it down? (Edit: seems to be a combination https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425... )

comment by cma · 2022-09-14 · in Linux's Modern NTFS Driver Preparing a “Hidedotfiles” Option

…SIO_AF_UNIX_GETPEERPID is something I did not know about either, although apparently a bit buggy – https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4676 What does the "NOTE: setting the parent path is not thread safe" comment mean? Not thread safe…

comment by skissane · 2022-09-06 · in Userspace FUSE for macOS

…gotten much worse with WSL2, especially with Docker. Specifically, I'd be plagued by this issue ( https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4166 ), where Docker would eat all the WSL memory and never release it. I finally pulled the plug and…

comment by wizwit999 · 2022-09-04 · in Ask HN: Mac OS vs. Windows in 2022

…requests for WSL1 a couple of years ago when I asked for the adjtimex syscall to set system time: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/6310 > I presume this is wontfix for WSL1? > Yes WSL2 won't help your use-case presently. A feature…

comment by NavinF · 2022-07-16 · in Android removes much of Fuchsia-related code as Starnix project progresses

…went with a VM called WSL v2. I have no solid proof but I believe at least one of the factors were https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/2028 https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/3031 -- the ptrace() syscall is not a single syscall…

comment by _ugfj · 2022-07-16 · in Android removes much of Fuchsia-related code as Starnix project progresses

…speed of NTFS - and I think it was one of the reasons for the switch to virtualisation in WSL2. < https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425... >

comment by espenwa · 2022-06-19 · in Cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than building natively

…maintaining it. For dev environments, you can workaround it using Windows + Drive filestream + WSL. https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/2999#issuecomment-91...

comment by cloudking · 2022-04-24 · in 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive

…it on. You can read more here if you're interested (you'll have to expand the hidden comments): https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425... > No, compilation is six times faster in Linux in almost every single language…

comment by dataflow · 2022-04-08 · in Using Windows after 15 years on Linux

…host ubuntu. 1. WFH from VPN, firstly I had to lower mtu from 1500 to 1392 (My VPN specific issue) https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4698 2. Next, I had to run some powershell script that updates /etc/resolv.conf to use my VPN DNS…

comment by jve · 2022-03-11 · in DNS resolution issue in Alpine Linux (2021)

I think this is what I had in mind: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425...

comment by michaelsbradley · 2022-02-05 · in Getting Started with Git Bash

…in explorer (via 9P). I was able to get it working (with a few setup issues) with a RAID 1 mirror: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/6711#issuecomment-10... (Forgive linking in the middle of a Github issue. Everything ended up…

comment by jpeeler · 2022-02-04 · in Why Not ZFS (2021)

…been a pain for me for a long time I think it could be useful to others here since the WSL issue ( https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4210 ) making static allocation difficult is popular. Surprisingly this repo does not have so much…

comment by brentcetinich · 2022-01-16 · in Deterministic IP Addressing for WSL2

…be left in half-finished mode forever. bugs are closed as "fixed-in-wsl2" without further comment: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues?q=label%3Afixed-in-w... , including serious bugs causing incorrect computations:…

comment by Hello71 · 2021-11-20 · in Installing Windows and Linux into the same partition

…is performance problems when working on NTFS partitions, or at least there were when I tried it: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4401

comment by dom96 · 2021-11-09 · in WSL2 can now mount Linux ext4 disks directly

…as WSLg uses X11/Wayland. edit: apparently compiling modules is (kinda) working with wsl2: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4425

comment by pyentropy · 2021-11-09 · in WSL2 can now mount Linux ext4 disks directly

…solve the "one WiFi MAC address" problem without NAT. I guess Microsoft thought that was too hard. https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/discussions/5855

comment by p1mrx · 2021-10-30 · in The Roll-Out of Windows 11 Is the Perfect Time to Decide to Switch to Linux

…to be "in a chroot", which triggers security limitations on what you can do with kernel namespaces: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/2981

comment by dTal · 2021-10-30 · in The Roll-Out of Windows 11 Is the Perfect Time to Decide to Switch to Linux

…I experience a lot of errors which are resolved by changing the path to not contain a space. [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/2577#issuecomment-90...

comment by Natfan · 2021-10-21 · in I couldn't debug the code because of my name

…better off putting that list into your blog post, or just pick one that’s the most useful like https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/7492 . I doubt the reader is going to trawl for every single issue to find the ones you’re talking…

comment by jayflux · 2021-10-10 · in Part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux

…so many [*], and localhost sharing is still buggy and hasn't been fixed even after 2 years. [0]: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/5298 [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/7492 [2]: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/672…

comment by abdusco · 2021-10-10 · in Part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux

…guard and they wonder why 127.0.0.1 or localhost isn't working. Here's the github issue about it: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4851

comment by Mogzol · 2021-10-10 · in Part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux

This github issue in interesting: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/2886 It sort of hints that you could coax LxssManager.dll into running an elf binary without WSL itself really running. Though you would need to do some things to…

comment by tyingq · 2021-09-17 · in Black Lotus Labs uncovers Linux executables deployed as stealth Windows loaders

…Windows 10 with a different shell. So it's not like it will disrupt your workflow or something. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/5895

comment by m000 · 2021-09-16 · in Windows 11: Just say no

…systems, we'd have it by now. Here's one of the developers saying it is hard back in the WSL days. https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-391... The reason makes sense to me, but I'm not an expert. Maybe you could expand…

comment by scandinavian · 2021-09-10 · in Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI

System performance is, IO between Windows and Linux isn’t. https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197

comment by easton · 2021-09-10 · in Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI

…the WSL team why certain filesystem operations that would be fast on Linux are slow on Windows: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-391... https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425...

comment by shawnz · 2021-07-20 · in SQLite is 35% Faster Than The Filesystem (2017)

…stable releases. Have to be on insider build, which collects all manner of system and user data. https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4193

comment by devwastaken · 2021-04-22 · in Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux

…to allow the linux kernel to use the windows page cache instead of maintaining a separate one. https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4166#issuecomment-64...

comment by voxic11 · 2021-04-22 · in Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux

…no details, and WSL2 works great for everyone I personally know. You could probably get help there: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues But, obviously, you would have to actually be willing to provide meaningful details and not just...…

comment by coder543 · 2021-04-21 · in Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux

…file system. On WSL2 accessing the Windows file system is pretty slow. You can read about it here: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197

comment by josalhor · 2021-04-21 · in Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux

…[0]: With WSL2, apps will now use either 50% or 8GB of your available memory. Happy coding! [0]: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4166

comment by siproprio · 2021-04-21 · in Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux

If you can't do what you want in it, please open a ticket on https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL - there is also a repo for the kernel, but AFAIK technical feedback is best sent through this one. (disclaimer: not directly involved with WSL,…

comment by rcarmo · 2021-03-19 · in Docker for Mac M1 RC

My main issue is the lack of support for serial (so, no USB support): https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/2195 . Other that this I love Windows 10 + WSL2 as a dev environment.

comment by dgellow · 2021-03-19 · in Docker for Mac M1 RC

There's definitely a few quirks. My biggest annoyance right now is https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/5762 . Note this only impacts calling the Linux go toolchain from the Windows side (via the /$wsl/ path). Its not an issue inside…

comment by meddlepal · 2021-03-19 · in Docker for Mac M1 RC

…I don't think it's quite there yet: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Microsof... https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/938#issuecomment-763... Somewhat related: https://ltsp.org/ I'm not sure about the state of a non-x…

comment by e12e · 2021-03-19 · in Docker for Mac M1 RC

Interesting. Did you tested any performance by non-NTFS? I remembered this post. https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425...

comment by fomine3 · 2021-02-17 · in Many small queries are efficient in SQLite

…inside the Linux filesystem, but is very slow (slower than WSL1) if you're in /mnt/c, for example. https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197 Getting X11 up and running is a little tricky also, because localhost is not the same as…

comment by tyingq · 2021-01-30 · in Sudo buffer overflow explained, and how to patch (WSL and Linux) [video]

…it still has fundamental problems: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25612962 (corrupting repos) https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/5336 (no Internet access)

comment by shrimp_emoji · 2021-01-30 · in Creating my awesome Windows 10 dev setup