I mean, any time a Windows process needs to interact with resources within WSL it has to go through a translation layer. I didn’t realize you could run native GUI apps within WSL. But if I’m to the point of installing Wayland and GUI apps in WSL, I’d just wipe Windows and install Linux instead…
Yes, using Windows apps (beyond very simple things like the file manager) to deal with WSL resources, or vice-versa, is generally a bad time; WSL only really shines if you treat it like a separate computer, i.e. a Linux server you have access to. (This is exactly how VSCode’s WSL extension does in fact operate.)
And yeah, if I had been given the choice, I definitely would have gone back to native Linux rather than stuck with Windows during the years I used WSL as my daily driver. But that would have been an uphill battle against IT that I wasn’t interested in fighting, and I preferred WSL+Windows to MacOS. (Now that I’ve got an ARM Mac, the hardware advantage is sufficient that I probably wouldn’t go back to WSL any time soon, but I still miss having a genuine Linux kernel without needing to run VirtualBox or something.)
I have mixed feelings about macOS. I grew up using it and I talked my previous employer into getting me a mac for work but I’ve barely used my mac laptop in the last four years, even more so in the last year since I bought a Linux laptop.
I mean, any time a Windows process needs to interact with resources within WSL it has to go through a translation layer. I didn’t realize you could run native GUI apps within WSL. But if I’m to the point of installing Wayland and GUI apps in WSL, I’d just wipe Windows and install Linux instead…
Yes, using Windows apps (beyond very simple things like the file manager) to deal with WSL resources, or vice-versa, is generally a bad time; WSL only really shines if you treat it like a separate computer, i.e. a Linux server you have access to. (This is exactly how VSCode’s WSL extension does in fact operate.)
And yeah, if I had been given the choice, I definitely would have gone back to native Linux rather than stuck with Windows during the years I used WSL as my daily driver. But that would have been an uphill battle against IT that I wasn’t interested in fighting, and I preferred WSL+Windows to MacOS. (Now that I’ve got an ARM Mac, the hardware advantage is sufficient that I probably wouldn’t go back to WSL any time soon, but I still miss having a genuine Linux kernel without needing to run VirtualBox or something.)
I have mixed feelings about macOS. I grew up using it and I talked my previous employer into getting me a mac for work but I’ve barely used my mac laptop in the last four years, even more so in the last year since I bought a Linux laptop.