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Discussion on: The State of Developing on Windows 2019: Impressive!

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janflyborg

Some performance issues? I would say it is more or less unusable for most of the work I normally do on my Mac or Linux Workstation.

NTFS already has some performance issues so deciding to bolt a Linux filesystem emulation layer on top of that doesn't really help the situation.

If you use Node.js and run 'npm -i' for a normal sized project, the operation might take five minutes in WSL and fifteen seconds in Linux (on the same HW).

Same thing goes for compiling a large project in C/C++.

I had high hopes, but it's so utterly slow that it's unbearable to use (and yes, I have disabled Windows Defender for the folders in question).