this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2023
817 points (96.5% liked)

linuxmemes

20734 readers
1715 users here now

I use Arch btw

Sister communities:

Community rules

  1. Follow the site-wide rules and code of conduct
  2. Be civil
  3. Post Linux-related content
  4. No recent reposts

Please report posts and comments that break these rules!

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
poopsmith
zephyr
817
When WSL2 first came out, some losers on /g/ were cheering that it would "make Linux obsolete". Four years later, I think it's safe to say they were kinda missing the point. (vlemmy.net)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes
128 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Tinkering around to get things working is a part of the authentic Linux experience. Performance is 95% to Ubuntu 20.0.4 so not sure what you mean by that. resolv.conf won't get wiped out if you put

[networking]
generateResolvConf = false

in your /etc/wsl.conf file.

A more modern solution is outlined here which you will want to adjust if you're using something other than Cisco.

[–] jmanes 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've been using Linux for 15 years. Tinkering with WSL is not as fruitful as tinkering with Linux.

The link you provided for DNS is exactly the solution I was describing in my original post. It never worked for me, though. We have a custom DNS setup in-house and simply setting the nameserver doesn't work. It is far too much of a hassle, so we just spin up wsl-vpnkit when we need network access.

Mac users and Linux native users don't have these issues and everything works out of the box.

The performance I get when compiling and running integration tests through Rancher desktop integration on WSL is abysmal. Taking 30+ minutes to complete whereas for other employees on Macs see things done in under 5 minutes. Not sure if there is a WSL specific firewall / networking issue or what. If you look up "WSL2 poor network performacne" you'll see dozens of open GitHub issues. It is very non-deterministic. Some days it runs great, other days it is terrible.

I assume I'll have a million of other replies coming along that link me to random benchmarks and articles about how great WSL2 is, but I'm telling you, I use it every single day at my job as a software engineer. It has problems. I'm grateful it exists and that I can hack it just enough to work (sometimes), but it is nothing like using Linux natively.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

To be clear I wasn't trying to say WSL replaces Linux. Just trying to help with your issues. I use WSL on Windows but I still also use native Arch (btw).