linux-surface VS USB-Storage-on-WSL2

Compare linux-surface vs USB-Storage-on-WSL2 and see what are their differences.

USB-Storage-on-WSL2

This article describes how you can access your USB storage device from Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) (by jovton)
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linux-surface

Posts with mentions or reviews of linux-surface. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-11.

USB-Storage-on-WSL2

Posts with mentions or reviews of USB-Storage-on-WSL2. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-13.
  • Microsoft launches Surface Laptop 4
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Apr 2021
    Just a note: one serious limitation I've encountered is that linux running under WSL2 (or WSL1 I believe) is unable to access USB. This was a show stopper for firmware development for me.

    The solution seems to be uh, patch the kernel? https://github.com/jovton/USB-Storage-on-WSL2

What are some alternatives?

When comparing linux-surface and USB-Storage-on-WSL2 you can also consider the following projects:

iptsd - Userspace daemon for Intel Precise Touch & Stylus

mbp2018-bridge-drv - A driver for MacBook models 2018 and newer, which makes the keyboard, mouse and audio output work.

surface-uefi-firmware - UEFI firmware updates for surface using fwupd. WIP, be careful.

libwacom-surface - Patches to support Microsoft Surface Devices with `libwacom`.

void-packages - The Void source packages collection

TLP - TLP - Optimize Linux Laptop Battery Life

Linux-Surface-Wizard - Quickly get your Surface device running Debian/Arch/Fedora distros in a working state.

intel-precise-touch - Linux kernel driver for Intel Precise Touch & Stylus

ath10k-firmware-override

ExpansionCards - Reference designs and documentation to create Expansion Cards for the Framework Laptop

XiaoMiToolV2 - XiaomiTool V2 - Modding tool for xiaomi devices

linux-surface-overlay - Gentoo Overlay with surface kernel and other utilities from linux-surface repo.