WSL2 made me the SLOWEST Software Developer in the world! I didn’t know.

Whenever I run “yarn install”, I can go for a walk since it takes forever under the windows subsystem for Linux or #wsl2. But I fixed that and made #yarn on #WSL and yarn almost as fast as running native.

[Tuto]

I found the video very interesting, having moved over to Windows 11 myself recently. If I may offer one small suggestion: I found the background music a bit distracting. Lowering the volume of the music track would make it less intrusive in future videos. But that's just my opinion. 👍

[ismbil]

The only solution I found to the slowness of WSL2 is using the correct file system. If you are working in Linux do not attempt to use files in windows system which is mounted in /mnt. If you are using Windows, the files you use should be stored in windows files system under /mnt/c ... In my case, I am coding with Pycharm in Windows and the project files are also in Windows, using WSL interpreter and no slowness issue anymore.

[waperboy]

Good info, but next time skip the music - it is too loud and very distracting.

[RenanDuarteHB]

haha you do the hardest thing, when i use the wsl, i always use the folders inside /home/dev or something like that... i never tried to go out on the path related on windows volumes, but I didn't know that either Sven, thanks

[echo-hotel]

Music too loud. Accent isn’t bad for an American listener but with the music I can’t handle it all, at least not today. Sorry…

[itsSujeetMahto]

I learnt it the hard way. I was having the same issue, digged through all these articles (and even more) and finally bumped into that SOF page.

[VeaceslavBARBARII]

I haven't noticed the music at all. O-o
I've read the comments, people are complaining about the music.

I've started the video again, and indeed, there is music on the background and is quite loud lol.

It seems that my brain can filter out any noise when needed 😂

[bubbles]

Ok thats great to know!! I have to use windows as my main OS for work and wsl2 has been a sanity saver. It actually makes me wish i had updated from win10 to win11 sooner 😅

[riajikbal]

i was bit confused about wl2 and virtual box but now i got my answer

[SzTz]

I left WSL a year ago, it's too slow and drove me mad. It just wasn't worth working on it.

[pinglocalhost]

The music is overpowering; you're voice hard to hear you.

[davidkeith]

Being hearing challenged, I had hard time hearing you. :(

[fulconandroadcone]

And I was wondering how come that neo vim is slower in wsl compared to vscode