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I gave up dual booting after they released WSL2.



I’ve had a lot of hope for wsl2, so much so that I’ve been using it as my daily os. However recently some directories under wsl2 are just empty and seem to be unrecoverable. I’ve filed a bug, however I can’t find a way to reproduce it so I don’t expect much motion. So far it’s just random directories are empty and I can’t delete them due to the resource being busy, and unfortunately the Linux utilities to check the locks on the directories error out.

I hope I’m just the exception here, but I’ve had to start re-evaluating what I’m going to do longer term, the short term is easier (push all).


same here, it depends on how they use the OS for. I develop with cross platform language most of the time ( Go, Rust, C++ ), WSL2 with Windows does the job beautifully :)


Funny, I gave up on dual booting after they released Proton.


I gave up Windows10, I mean Spyware10, after I managed to do everything I needed on GNU/Linux.




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