I have no experience with WSL but I've been reading up on it as I think my main computer should probably be less than ten years old. With Windows 11 it sounds like WSL now has a full kernel. So I guess that would take disk space, but it sounds like a pretty complete implementation. On my existing computer, I am using less than a third of the original disk space. Since new machines always have moar, I suspect I can live with WSL gobbling up its footprint.
I agree that PowerShell is wrong. And I use both GUI and CLI for file management - I'm not sure if I'm a Luddite or not. Is there anything else, in particular, we should be cautious about with Windows 11 and WSL? <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Virus-free. www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 8:42 AM Lennart Sorensen via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 09:53:14AM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk > wrote: > > Without checking, I would guess that WinSCP is a few megabytes of disk > > space but WSL is a few gigabytes. > > > > I think that for the few times I use it, scp on PowerShell is OK, > > saving disk space over WSL. > > > > I do use WinSCP too. (In the last couple of years I've even started > > to use the Gnome Files program fairly regularly!) > > > > For me the disk space for WSL effectively comes from Linux because I > > don't generally have a Windows-only computer and I try to give most of > > the space to Linux. I haven't really found WSL very useful. > > I understand that others do find it useful. > > WSL is useful enough that my laptop no longer has a linux install. > I have dedicated linux machines in the house, but for my laptop windows > with WSL works just fine and avoids the hassle of dealing with the linux > drivers when it comes to suspend and the dual intel/nvidia video chip > setup and such. And I can play my games. So since what I do is run > a web browser, play some games, and run a bash shell to do whatever > command line stuff I need, it just seems to work better. > > I find graphical programs hugely annoying for file management compared > to a CLI, so gnome has nothing useful to offer me, and winscp is just > too much trouble with all that clicking. > > powershell's syntax is just too weird and verbose for me to bother > looking at. > > -- > Len Sorensen > --- > Post to this mailing list [email protected] > Unsubscribe from this mailing list > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >
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