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d3sandoval | 5 years ago

With the release of WSL2 and the new versions of Docker that take advantage of it, I would say that most of the pain around the WSL toolchain has been resolved.

Compared with trying to get anything working in powershell or dealing with the slowness of git bash or Cygwin, WSL2 is a breeze.

The only pain point I still have is running Linux GUI applications. It requires running an XWindow server on the Windows side and letting WSL talk to it over TCP. Apparently MS is working on that now and hopes to have a solution later this year on the slow ring of windows update. That'll make running things like Cypress a hell of a lot easier and (fingers crossed) prevent me from squinting on HiDPI displays.

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