Unified Development Environment
December 29, 2021 -Update 2022-01-29: My experience with WSL2 has been a total catastrophe. I've since moved to a dual-boot setup. The performance was terribly slow, especially with the horrendous support for NTFS. On top of that, it consumes at least 10GB of disk space even when idle. I cannot recommend it.
After many years of waiting patiently there is finally a reasonable way to have a unified development environment from windows named WSL version 2. This finally enables us developers to run a full linux environment natively in windows without virtual machine or dual-boot. Learn about the details that made it functioning.
Native Terminal
As you can see this is a terminal experience in windows enhanced with ConEmu that provides a full linux experience. Some cool feature are:
- Support various linux versions / distros (ubuntu is the default).
- VSCode remote integration.
- GPU Support (Nvidia CUDA).
The only major issue that still prevents me from using it more frequently is horrible NTFS performance.
Installation
wsl --install