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260 mentions on Hacker News by 222 people: 31 stories, 229 comments · first 2016-04-18 · latest 2026-10-10

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  1. …a database just to discover that I could not reach a server because WSL2 does not support IPV6 ( https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4518 )
    comment by nyantaro1 · 2023-11-14 · in Windows 11 is amazing, I left Linux
  2. …these laptops. The issue is known for years and has hundreds of comments on GitHub without a fix ( https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/6982 )
    comment by fzimmermann89 · 2023-11-14 · in Windows 11 is amazing, I left Linux
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    Missing source code – GPL compliance? #107
    story by 7e · 2023-11-08 · 1 comment
  4. The prerelease finally supports ipv6: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/releases
    comment by uxp8u61q · 2023-10-04 · in Enabling IPv6 support for IPv4-only apps on Linux
  5. There are several issues in the repo related this bug, here's another one with over 500 comments: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/6982 Almost 1000 total comments between both of these and basically no acknowledgement from microsoft.
    comment by bakugo · 2023-09-20 · in Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.0 release
  6. Or this one that makes WSL's clock fall out of sync after sleep or hibernate. https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/10006
    comment by FranklinMaillot · 2023-09-19 · in Windows Subsystem for Linux gets new 'mirrored' network mode
  7. Wonder if it fixes this issue. https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/8725
    comment by 0___0 · 2023-09-19 · in Windows Subsystem for Linux gets new 'mirrored' network mode
  8. I think it's this bug https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/8696 A real nightmare.
    comment by timost · 2023-09-19 · in Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.0 release
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    Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.0 release
    story by lnyan · 2023-09-19 · 67 comments
  10. …it was utterly unusable (literally minutes for git status). I've found this thorough explanation https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197#issuecomment-60...
    comment by nsteel · 2023-08-29 · in Unix sockets, Cygwin, SSH agents, and sadness
  11. …you can drop your cache manually to reclaim memory. I've been doing it for years now, it works: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4166#issuecomment-62...
    comment by nickjj · 2023-06-19 · in WSL 1.3.10 Brings Experimental Memory Reclaim, Updated DXCore and Linux Kernel
  12. …very keen on making more and more of. Hundreds of thousands of handles leaked after a week uptime: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/9851 DD is a POS, so ah, whatever.
    comment by crazysim · 2023-06-19 · in WSL 1.3.10 Brings Experimental Memory Reclaim, Updated DXCore and Linux Kernel
  13. Release notes at: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/releases/tag/1.3.10
    comment by kristianp · 2023-06-19 · in WSL 1.3.10 Brings Experimental Memory Reclaim, Updated DXCore and Linux Kernel
  14. …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
  15. 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
  16. 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
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    WSL2 Freeze Issue
    story by timost · 2023-03-28 · 2 comments
  18. 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
  19. …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
  20. …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
  21. 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
  22. …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
  23. 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)
  24. 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
  25. …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
  26. …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
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    Windows Subsystem For Linux a.k.a. WSL 1.0.0 released
    story by CoolCold · 2022-11-16 · 253 comments
  28. …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
  29. …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
  30. …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
  31. …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
  32. …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
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    WSL 2 Filesystem Performance is Not Yet Fixed After 3 years
    story by robertwt7 · 2022-07-15 · 0 comments
  34. …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
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    A Windows Engineer Talking about WSL (#issuecomment-425272829)
    story by behnamoh · 2022-06-12 · 0 comments
  36. …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
  37. …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
  38. …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)
  39. 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
  40. …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)
  41. …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
  42. …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
  43. …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
  44. …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
  45. ▲ 1
    Git pull/push stuck forever on WSL2
    story by delduca · 2021-11-04 · 2 comments
  46. …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
  47. …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
  48. …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
  49. …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
  50. …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