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…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

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story by NomeChomsky · 2021-03-23 · 0 comments

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

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Wsl2 sometime corrupt .zsh_history and Git (insider build fix)

story by davemateer · 2021-02-06 · 0 comments

…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

…See the descriptions in [1] and [2] which are both linked to from the original thread [3]. [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/5026 [2]: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/5895 [3]: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL2-Linux-Kern…

comment by matt123456789 · 2021-01-03 · in WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history

…enough information to know if all the reported problems are the result of the same defect. But in: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/5895 The first instance of a problem is: [ 1.956835] JBD2: Invalid checksum recovering block 97441…

comment by cmurf · 2021-01-02 · in WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history

…abhorrent file system performance. Both PTRACE_SEIZE and PTRACE_TRACEME was closed as fixed-in-wsl2 https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/2028 https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/3031

comment by chx · 2021-01-02 · in WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history

Acked by the MSFT folk: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/5026#event-416012748...

comment by smarx007 · 2021-01-02 · in WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history

Really? https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4619 https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/6069

comment by mekoka · 2021-01-02 · in WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history

Except they moved performance backwards in WSL2 for accessing files shared with Windows: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197

comment by _23sd · 2021-01-02 · in WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history

…for WSL. An example of an uncomfortably stupid rough edge would be periodically time-desyncing: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4149 . I shit you not, my workaround is to manually adjust my linux time forward and back with `sudo…

comment by icegreentea2 · 2021-01-02 · in WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history

More: - WSL2 sometime corrupt .zsh_history and git https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/5026 - WSL2 corrupts ext4 filesystem https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/5895

comment by delduca · 2021-01-02 · in WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history

…better performance; I believe there are some other hacks to fix specific things like "git status". https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197

comment by agf · 2020-12-25 · in Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

…stop dual booting. I hate dual booting more than I hate Windows, so it would be an improvement. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/2195#issuecomment-74...

comment by folkrav · 2020-12-17 · in GWSL: Run graphical Linux apps in WSL

…run Windows PulseAudio yourself - there are various guides listed in the comments of this issue: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/5816

comment by adia · 2020-12-17 · in GWSL: Run graphical Linux apps in WSL

…everything inside WSL, but for other development tasks you're going to run into issues real quick. https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/873 https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197 https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4166…

comment by thekyle · 2020-11-28 · in Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective

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WSL2 serial ports don't work, workarounds for Arduino and ESP32

story by childintime · 2020-11-28 · 0 comments

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WSL2 needs serial port workarounds for Arduino and ESP32

story by childintime · 2020-11-24 · 0 comments

not just the dentry cache: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425...

comment by utxaa · 2020-11-20 · in Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential

…the bottleneck; the bottleneck is that NTFS is a crappy filesystem. Yes, I've read this comment: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425... The argument about Windows not having a single, central dentry cache doesn't…

comment by wahern · 2020-11-20 · in Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential

The big one is https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/2028 which is "fixed-in-wsl2" This makes lldb and dlv both just not work in wsl1 and that's just the languages I dabbed in, I think the Swift debugger had issues as well.

comment by chx · 2020-11-20 · in Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential

…needs, but has no means to free this back. There's an option to use .wslconfig to specify a limit. https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4166

comment by month13 · 2020-11-19 · in Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential

It seems like those bugs were fixed some time ago. See: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/555

comment by shawnz · 2020-11-19 · in Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential

…1.x's team members original comments on this subject. It sounds like a deeply intractable problem. https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-424... https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425... The second…

comment by hapless · 2020-11-19 · in Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential

…would have file descriptors get clogged, and it took a full system reboot to get WSL working again: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/1529 . WSL2 Fixes it. [1] https://emcrisostomo.github.io/fswatch/doc/1.8.0/fswatch.htm... See…

comment by tony · 2020-11-02 · in Ubuntu Linux Jail on FreeBSD 12.2-Release

We can create a repository just for issues, like Microsoft does with WSL: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL

comment by yamrzou · 2020-10-25 · in Youtube-dl GitHub Template

Have they fixed the filesystem performance issues yet? My speeds were faster on WSL1 https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197

comment by thesis · 2020-10-07 · in WSL2 – Installation Tutorial for Graphical Windows Subsystem on Linux

…mirror a firewall config inside the Linux machine. And that will only work on recent versions, see https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4212#issue-459183662 UPD: I think it will be resolved in a much neater way soon…

comment by smarx007 · 2020-09-30 · in Linux under WSL2 can be leaking

…are successful tunneling traffic (or if it's only if they are started before the wsl2 vm is). 0 - https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4277

comment by kodablah · 2020-09-30 · in Linux under WSL2 can be leaking

Related issue with some workarounds that people are reporting various levels of success with: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/5068

comment by wanderr · 2020-09-30 · in Linux under WSL2 can be leaking

…on localhost, but that looks to be resolved and should hopefully be available to everyone soon: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/5298 You could also install Docker inside WSL2 and run a WordPress image. However, wrapping your head…

comment by mjrpes · 2020-08-17 · in I tried to use WordPress with GitHub Pages

Here's more or less official description of this issue. https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425...

comment by throwaway8941 · 2020-08-16 · in NTFS read-write GPL kernel driver

WSL 2 has issues: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues For most of the users doing a lightweight work, it might not be a problem but my repository is extremely huge and building on WSL 2 takes at least 5X more than natives Widnows or…

comment by jameson · 2020-07-28 · in Porting a macOS Clojure Dev Setup to Windows WSL2

…have had different names so to not suggest that one is entirely newer or better than the other. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4022

comment by da-x · 2020-07-11 · in Cooperative Linux – running Linux as a Windows driver (2011)