• aard@kyu.de
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    1 year ago

    autoMemoryReclaim – Makes the WSL VM shrink in memory as you use it by reclaiming cached memory

    This could finally make WSL2 somewhat usable - though at least for my usecases living in the Windows namespace as is the case with WSL1 is still more beneficial, even if that finally works.

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    Say what you will about the seemingly ‘half-pregnant’ approach, but I’m running a Debian laptop/desktop/server thanks to being able to dip my toes in via WSL (and truly testing the water via Crostini that did the trick).

    Today’s WSL user is tomorrow’s Linux convert after a few more negative articles and BSODs