usbipd-win VS Flow.Launcher

If (like me) you're stuck on Windows, WSL2 is really awesome. It's super fast, and requires very minimal setup to get it up and running. The VS Code integration is superb. You can even connect USB devices to WSL now, which makes it very suitable for embedded. You get nearly the performance of a full OS install, unlike a typical VM. On my machine it's about 50% faster than Virtualbox.

It should be possible with usbipd-win, you can then attach usb devices to hyper-v/WSL2 VMs. edit: there's even a vscode plugin for it

ADS-B is a protocol used by aircrafts to broadcast their position, altitude, speed, and other information. Nowadays, the majority of aircrafts broadcast ADS-B messages constantly. Anyone with the right equipment can listen to these messages. You can buy a relatively cheap USB dongle with an antenna on Amazon and install drivers for it on Linux. In my case I used usbipd-win to mount the USB device inside Ubuntu running in WSL2. Then I installed the Linux drivers and dump1090, a program that makes use of these drivers and then outputs ADS-B messages in a format that is easy to parse. While you can use dump1090 to display a neat table full of information about aircrafts, I wanted to use its raw output capabilities to parse ADS-B messages myself. It starts a simple TCP server that outputs raw ADS-B messages wrapped in Mode-S Beast frames. I'm not sure what Beast means, but I found something that looks like its spec here.

Though I see https://github.com/dorssel/usbipd-win may actually work properly as a full usb passthrough now for WSL2?

For server (e.g. machine that provides devices), https://github.com/dorssel/usbipd-win is a bit more mature - they grabbed the driver infrastructure from virtualbox to handle the issues with code signing.

Flow Launcher is a very good alternative that i use everyday:

https://github.com/Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher

Looks like there’s an Everything plugin https://github.com/Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher#everything-pl...

Looks slick! https://github.com/Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher

Do you know if it does anything like what Everything does re/ tapping into Windows's underlying file database?

https://github.com/Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher

The Fluent Search creator is pretty active and available on Discord.

Personally prefer Flow after having used both extensively

You could also see if Cerebro or Flow work for you, both of which I tried last year before settling on ueli.

Lucky for us the open-source community is here to rescue us! While browsing through Reddit, I came upon Flow-Launcher, and I immediately fell in love with it! 😍

I recently downloaded the flow launcher from github. On running the exe through Virus Total, it shows 2 detections, the first by MaxSecure, which is most likely a false positive, considering that it shows the same detection in various files, but I need a second opinion on the VBA 32 detection.

Other options that are open source are wox, cerebro and flow launcher