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Discussion on: Beginner Devs Should Use Linux... Maybe

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Michiel Hendriks

WSL, even with 2, is quite a broken hack. A lot of things simply do not work correct. One enormous issue is time, it is almost constantly wrong.

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aibarra11

oh really? I don't really pay attention to time in there. I know there were some serious issues before, networking for example, but updates took care of that. wsl2 works well for what I use it - VS code remote and docker (docker compose not k8s). I do mainly php, Node.js work

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Michiel Hendriks • Edited

In WSL2 there is also a memory issue due to normal Linux kernel behavior of disk caching. This will cause VM to eat into your normal memory.

See github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4166

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aibarra11

whoa. and the issues is still open 😅.
thanks! I'll keep an eye out for that. currently seeing only 250mbs of memory being used by it.