Same project, same machine, same commands. Run it natively on Windows and it is fast. Run it in the Linux subsystem and it is unusably slow, installs, builds, test runs, everything involving lots of files. CPU is not…
I had Windows and a Linux install side by side on the same laptop, choosing between them from a boot menu at startup. That menu is gone. The machine now boots straight into Windows. I went into the firmware setup to…
I dual boot and I have a large drive I wanted to use as a single Steam library that both sides read, so I only download each game once. I can mount the drive from Linux and Steam recognises the library. Some games…
Trying to set up a dual boot on a fairly recent laptop. The live environment boots fine from USB and everything works, wifi, display, the lot. The installer sees no disks. Not the wrong disks, none. So there is no…
I ran the release upgrade from one long term support release to the next on my dual boot desktop. The upgrade completed and asked me to reboot. On reboot there is no bootloader menu at all. It goes straight into…
Laptop is nearly full and the culprit is clearly the WSL virtual disk. Inside the distro says I am using about 12GB. On the Windows side the file is over 90GB. I have deleted a lot inside Linux old container images,…
Running a database on Windows and an application inside the distro. Connecting to from Linux works on my desktop and fails on my laptop, same setup as far as I can tell. The other direction, a server inside Linux,…
Both appeared on the same machine in the same week and I suspect they are related, but everything I read treats them as separate issues with separate fixes. WSL gives and the hex code. VirtualBox refuses to start a VM…
I am running a service inside the Linux subsystem and I want to reach it from Windows and from other machines. The subsystem gets its own address on a virtual network, and that address changes on reboot, so hard coding…
I keep reading that desktop Linux has moved from one display server to a newer one, and that some things behave differently depending on which is running. I do not know which one my session is actually using, and I have…
Fresh Windows machine. I followed the documented steps to set up the Linux subsystem and then tried to install a distribution, and it fails with error code 0x80370114 and nothing else useful. The subsystem itself…
A freshly installed distribution inside the Linux subsystem cannot update its package lists everything fails with signature verification errors saying the repository is not signed. The usual advice is a key management…