Can't agree. Worked over year with WSL1 and WSL2 and few years before on bare Linux distros. Switched to Mac OS fully last year and for me, it is the best setup (zsh, oh-my-zsh, iterm 2, IntelliJ IDE).
WSL2 is still lacking, memory issues (including huge leaks), sync issues, slow I/O, almost every time require running everything inside WSL for "smooth" performance using external xserver software. Not worth it in my opinion.
For the slow I/O with WSL2, disk access to files on the Linux file system is fine, it's when you're trying to access the windows filesystem that causes problems. I'd expect it to get better over time, but I don't use it much myself.
No is not. If you have for example IDE on Windows, and code/git on WSL2 then it will be slow and have some inconsistency between files - I had a lot of problems with that. It's for sure faster than on WSL1, but still not here.
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Can't agree. Worked over year with WSL1 and WSL2 and few years before on bare Linux distros. Switched to Mac OS fully last year and for me, it is the best setup (zsh, oh-my-zsh, iterm 2, IntelliJ IDE).
WSL2 is still lacking, memory issues (including huge leaks), sync issues, slow I/O, almost every time require running everything inside WSL for "smooth" performance using external xserver software. Not worth it in my opinion.
YOu do not need an xserver any more on wsl they run native on win11
For the slow I/O with WSL2, disk access to files on the Linux file system is fine, it's when you're trying to access the windows filesystem that causes problems. I'd expect it to get better over time, but I don't use it much myself.
No is not. If you have for example IDE on Windows, and code/git on WSL2 then it will be slow and have some inconsistency between files - I had a lot of problems with that. It's for sure faster than on WSL1, but still not here.