usbipd-win VS WSL-Context-Menu-Manager

Compare usbipd-win vs WSL-Context-Menu-Manager and see what are their differences.

usbipd-win

Windows software for sharing locally connected USB devices to other machines, including Hyper-V guests and WSL 2. (by dorssel)

WSL-Context-Menu-Manager

Manages the context menu for your Linux tools in WSL/WSL2 for Windows. (by repelliuss)
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usbipd-win WSL-Context-Menu-Manager
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9.0 0.0
6 days ago over 3 years ago
C# C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 only MIT License
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usbipd-win

Posts with mentions or reviews of usbipd-win. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-06.
  • What's Your Primary Operating System for Development on Your PC/Laptop?
    2 projects | /r/embedded | 6 Dec 2023
    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.
    2 projects | /r/embedded | 6 Dec 2023
    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
  • Planespotting with Rust: using nom to parse ADS-B messages
    5 projects | dev.to | 28 Oct 2023
    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.
  • Windows Terminal is now the default Windows 11 22H2 console
    9 projects | /r/programming | 10 Feb 2023
    Though I see https://github.com/dorssel/usbipd-win may actually work properly as a full usb passthrough now for WSL2?
  • Use your Steam Deck as an expensive game controller
    4 projects | /r/SteamDeck | 29 Jan 2023
    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.

WSL-Context-Menu-Manager

Posts with mentions or reviews of WSL-Context-Menu-Manager. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning WSL-Context-Menu-Manager yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing usbipd-win and WSL-Context-Menu-Manager you can also consider the following projects:

container-desktop - Provides an alternative for Docker for Desktop on Windows using WSL2.

gsudo - Sudo for Windows

wsl-windows-toolbar-launcher - Adds linux GUI application menu to a windows toolbar

WSLHostPatcher - Dynamic patch WSL2 to listen port on any interface.

windows-fido-bridge - An OpenSSH SK middleware that allows you to use a FIDO/U2F security key (e.g. a YubiKey) to SSH into a remote server from WSL or Cygwin.

keepassxc - KeePassXC is a cross-platform community-driven port of the Windows application “Keepass Password Safe”.

easyWSL - Create WSL distros based on Docker Images.

usbip-win - USB/IP for Windows

Fedora-Remix-for-WSL - Fedora Remix for Windows Subsystem for Linux.

react-native-radial-context-menu - ⚛️ React Native menu component.

WSLackware - Slackware for WSL!

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