As with all things, YMMV. But I run a Windows 10 installation, with ArchWSL as my WSL distro. It's on WSL2 (as opposed to WSL1, which did things differently). WSL2 effectively runs the Linux kernel as a program, which other linux programs can use to get their system calls answered, so it's fairly lightweight in that aspect.
On my system, the memory impact is minimal (maybe 10-100MB when idle). Disk space is going to be entirely up to what you install inside your distro -- on my box it's hovering at around 50GB, but that's after using this same installation for many years, installing packages, etc. The default install depending on distro could be 10GB or so. Once in a WSL shell, your Windows drives and files are available in /mnt/<driveletter>. For example, /mnt/c is my C: drive. It's really slick how well they pulled it off. Jake On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 1:58 PM Thomas Passin <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tuesday, June 11, 2024 at 12:35:26 PM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: > > On Windows, I use my Linux tools :) > > WSL is fantastic for this — ‘xxd’ works just as well in a WSL shell as it > does on my Arch laptop. > > > I haven't tried WSL yet. Does it take up a lot of memory or disk space? > I'm not a Linux whiz, and I usually spin up a Linux VM when I need to try > something. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "leo-editor" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/2b9962d0-fb02-4a30-9f94-f9e40589e7c1n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/2b9962d0-fb02-4a30-9f94-f9e40589e7c1n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/CAJ1i%2BSa5B1caSOMidt0O9%3DpW-3a4S9zZUcJWPOnfqJ%3DMDJVYmA%40mail.gmail.com.
