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WSL
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GoboLinux
It absolutely 100% can be true.
As an example: Windows Services for Linux 2 used a special init daemon to interact with the host OS.
That meant no systemd. That meant that the `systemctl` program wasn't there.
This baffled legions, armies, of wannabe sysadmins.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55579342/why-systemd-is-...
https://superuser.com/questions/1785697/systemd-in-wsl-on-wi...
https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/9477
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1132230/unable-to-run-any-sy...
People on the whole have no idea how this stuff works, and they just copy magic incantations from StackOverflow to get stuff to happen. If that doesn't work, then this OS is broken. The end.
For these guys, WSL was broken.
Result:
MS hired Lennart Poettering.
https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/07/lennart_poettering_re...
He "fixed" it. Systemd now works in WSL2. All those guides for noobs now work. Everyone is happy.
In a world where tools like Flatpak and Snap are proliferating and it's driving deep divisions between Linux distros, if you think the average person struggling with Linux is going to use `ldd` to work out where the dependencies for something live, I'm afraid you are a deep guru who lives on a different plane of existence.
We now have widely-used packaging systems which simply embed an apps entire dependency tree into a package to avoid people having to work out the difference between `apt` and `rpm`. Thousands of terabytes of disk are being burned to make this stuff go away.
Yes, this is too hard. Way too hard.
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Why Linux utilities tend to run poorly on Windows
Better source: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425...
- Weird graphical glitch/problem in Ubuntu WSLg (OpenGL)
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RamRamRamEveryoneSleepingOnDocker
One of the bugs where on the Docker side. As I have said, there have been several since release with a lot of impact period overlap. The latest and greatest is not resolved.
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Laravel dev in Windows - Laragon vs Docker?
It's the issue of abysmal I/O performance in communication between the mounted WSL2 virtual hard disk and Windows mounts inside the WSL2 distro.
- WSL freeze seems fixed in 2.0.12
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What's the right way to open files in the system's default program from Ubuntu 22.04 in WSL 2 please?
I found this github page and I was able to reproduce this from the answer
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Ask HN: Best Docker open source alternative?
* Docker engine and not Docker Desktop in a VM. WSL2 works well after some configuration: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/6655#issuecomment-11...
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Broadcom to Cut Almost 1,300 VMware Jobs in California After Takeover
Seems to more of a Defender issue than a WSL one, see https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/8995
After adding exclusions for the fsnotifier-wsl process and and both variants of the WSL distro path my disk performance was improved.
Adding the idea64.exe process also helped since I was trying to run IntelliJ against projects inside WSL.
- Bricked WSL 2 after 2.0.9 / Windows 10
xWSL
- XRDP with H.264 codec brings immense performance boost
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Why does "sudo apt reinstall bash" cause dpkg i/o error on WSL1?
Not seeing this in xWSL (Ubuntu 22.04)
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Install Linux Distro GUI ?
Follow this: https://github.com/DesktopECHO/xWSL
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Unable to get wsl/Ubuntu to work
You should be able to install xWSL at the very least. If it spits out an error let me know or post your issue to the project's GitHub issues page.
- Installing Ubuntu
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WSL GUI apps on Ryzen APU (5600G)
Foliate looks to work fine in xWSL if you download the non-Snap package from the Foliate PPA.
- Use Ubuntu as a GUI interface in windows 11.
- Full install procedure from Powershell?
- Using WSL as a full-fletched Linux
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Unable to download or open any WSL Ubuntu package on my laptop
Try this: Script to NetInstall Ubuntu 20.04, xRDP, and XFCE 4.16 on WSL (Version 1 or 2)
What are some alternatives?
wslg - Enabling the Windows Subsystem for Linux to include support for Wayland and X server related scenarios
kWSL - KDE Neon 6.0 installer for WSL1 or WSL2.
genie - A quick way into a systemd "bottle" for WSL
docker-headless-vnc-container - Collection of Docker images with headless VNC environments
Scoop - A command-line installer for Windows.
Pi-Hole-for-WSL1 - Ad-blocking DNS server for Windows • Unbound pre-configured • Deployment ready in minutes • Does not require hypervisor/docker
Single-GPU-Passthrough
docker-systemctl-replacement - docker systemctl replacement - allows to deploy to systemd-controlled containers without starting an actual systemd daemon (e.g. centos7, ubuntu16)
setup-msys2 - GitHub Action to setup MSYS2
Kali-xRDP - Kali xRDP Remote Desktop for WSL1 & WSL2
mkcert - A simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates with any names you'd like.