Le 28 janvier 2025 11:52:06 GMT+01:00, Leonidas Spyropoulos
a écrit :
>On 27/01/2025 23:59, Robin Candau wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'm writing this mail to collect thoughts and interests about providing an
>> official Arch Linux image for WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) [1].
>>
>
>Hello,
>
Hey,
>Thanks for bringing this up for discussion.
>
You're welcome :)
>My experience with WSL is limited as my company moved to AWS Workspaces for
>development and eventually to MacOs as host.
>
>My 2c from the time I used it in a corporate environment was that with all the
>bloatware that companies install into the OS and the extra layer that WSL
>brings on top, the performance on IOps was really poor. It could be specific
>to the bloatware that the companies (experienced that in two companies)
>install (call it security tools), but I had occasions where simple operations
>like `git rebase` multiple commits would end up git complaining that the files
>are locked (cause everything that was accessed in IO it needed to be scanned
>in real time, cause again "security"). The added WSL layer of files was making
>that more difficult to have a real `metal` IO performance.
>
>I understand this is probably edge case for most common usage.
>
Thanks for sharing your experience. Maybe edge cases indeed, at least mine is
different, I didn't suffer too much from such IO performance issue. I assume
most common usage wouldn't suffer from this, but that's still a valuable input
:)
>Overall though I think it's a good idea to have WSL Arch Linux images, but
>alas without a windows system I won't be able to support this personally (not
>even work laptop).
>
Thanks for sharing thoughts! Indeed, support requires access to a Windows
system. On my side, I have my work laptop. Also my wife is still running
Windows on her PC, so I could eventually access that if needed :p
For what it's worth, wsl2 can be installed / executed from a Windows VM as
well, as far as I know.
Regardless, I think it would be great to get some community involvement
regarding support. I have a few people that already expressed their interest to
me off-list, both in terms of usage and helping with support :D
>Cheers,
>
Regards,
Robin Candau / Antiz
