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Discussion on: WSL Tips: Starting Linux Background Services on Windows Login

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Ben Halpern

Nice. As a non-Windows user who is intrigued by WSL I found this a useful look into where Windows devs heads are at with this stuff. Have you encountered any major frustrations yet?

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Oh for sure! It has some filesystem performance issues in the IO layer between the Linux kernel interface and the Windows storage system. It doesn't affect most things but operations on lots of tiny files (like a Git repo!) can be a big problem. The team is working on that, I understand.