WSL Alternatives

Reviews and mentions

• Windows paths format is not recognized by docker without docker desktop
  reddit.com/r/docker | 2021-09-19

  Your options are - adapt to the workflow with a VM and mount /mnt/c/... path (note there is a performance penalty: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197), or maybe you want to actually move your code to \wsl$\... and edit it from there (VScode can do it transparently for you). Alternatively, you may want to ditch Docker entirely and take a look at https://podman.io/ or https://rancherdesktop.io/. I myself had no chance to look into these yet so I don't actually know if they address that problem or not - but I have big hopes for the Rancher Desktop as it's setup (k3s+containerd+nerdctl) is in alignment with Kubernetes ecosystem which is ultimately what I develop my containers to run in.

• Linux Executables Deployed as Stealth Windows (WSL) Loaders
  news.ycombinator.com | 2021-09-17

  This github issue in interesting: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/2886

  It sort of hints that you could coax LxssManager.dll into running an elf binary without WSL itself really running. Though you would need to do some things to make lxss happy, so it's not trivial.

• Working on RN on Windows - best setup?
  reddit.com/r/reactnative | 2021-09-15

  So I'm working on a RN app for a few months now, with a Laravel backend running on WSL2. All was fine until I started to want to use emulators for testing purpose, and not my physical device. I then started to have lots of problems, like this or that - as you can see the guy in the SO post gave a solution to run Android on a Hyper-V VM, it works but it's far from ideal.

• Which version of Ubuntu to install on Windows 10 to avoid empty/hanging terminal update
  reddit.com/r/bashonubuntuonwindows | 2021-09-10

  Here are others discussing the same issue: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4055

• Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI
  news.ycombinator.com | 2021-09-10

  >But I mean come on, they're Microsoft. If they really wanted filesystem access to be efficient across systems, we'd have it by now.

  Here's one of the developers saying it is hard back in the WSL days.

  https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-391...

  The reason makes sense to me, but I'm not an expert. Maybe you could expand on why you think they could do it but chose not to?

  news.ycombinator.com | 2021-09-10

  System performance is, IO between Windows and Linux isn’t.

  https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197

• This is Why Developers Are Embracing Microsoft Windows Again
  reddit.com/r/programming | 2021-09-08

  I had this exactly 8 times. But "fix" saved me. https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/5895

• ASP.NET Core web app in Docker container exhibiting bizarre DNS gremlins
  reddit.com/r/dotnet | 2021-09-07

  A few people in my team have the same issue. The only workaround I was able to find is to run `Restart-NetAdapter -Name "vEthernet (WSL)"` on the host (needs admin permissions). This seems to be related: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4285

• (don't actually do it)
  reddit.com/r/tf2 | 2021-09-06

  Windows Subsystem for Linux (🤮)

• Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar?
  reddit.com/r/programming | 2021-09-04

  And there will be countless hours spent on fixing something on Windows that just works on Linux. I mean things like WSL2, just check the issue list, over 1000 of them, including severe ones. I've been trying it out until the point it has broken Windows networking.

• Why am I getting permission denied executing command as root and using sudo
  reddit.com/r/linuxquestions | 2021-08-29
• Why don't game companies like Nintendo and Sony use a Linux distribution like Debian or RHEL as a base for their consoles?
  reddit.com/r/linux | 2021-08-26
• Filesystems in Docker for Windows - I'm (easily) confused
  reddit.com/r/docker | 2021-08-26

  Reading Windows files from Linux Docker is slow because they're basically network drives, albeit emulated, but it's also buggy.

• WSL2 on Windows 10 not booting with "please enable" error.
  reddit.com/r/bashonubuntuonwindows | 2021-08-20

  I saw on this thread https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4930

• Error: 0x80041002
  reddit.com/r/bashonubuntuonwindows | 2021-08-09

  It looks like there's a GitHub Issue, where folks either had to uninstall Comodo, or upgrade to a newer version: