I hadn't heard of ArchWSL before, thanks for that. I run Kubuntu rather
than Arch Linux, but I like the latter's documentation a lot.
J^n
On Tuesday, June 11, 2024 at 8:25:02 PM UTC+1 [email protected] wrote:
> 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.
>>
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