[GTALUG] two or three tricks for installing Linux as a second OS on a Windows box

[Warren McPherson]

I have no experience with WSL but I've been reading up on it as I think my
main computer should probably be less than ten years old. With Windows 11
it sounds like WSL now has a full kernel. So I guess that would take disk
space, but it sounds like a pretty complete implementation. On my existing
computer, I am using less than a third of the original disk space. Since
new machines always have moar, I suspect I can live with WSL gobbling up
its footprint.

I agree that PowerShell is wrong. And I use both GUI and CLI for file
management - I'm not sure if I'm a Luddite or not.

Is there anything else, in particular, we should be cautious about with
Windows 11 and WSL?


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On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 8:42 AM Lennart Sorensen via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 09:53:14AM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
> wrote:
> > Without checking, I would guess that WinSCP is a few megabytes of disk
> > space but WSL is a few gigabytes.
> >
> > I think that for the few times I use it, scp on PowerShell is OK,
> > saving disk space over WSL.
> >
> > I do use WinSCP too.  (In the last couple of years I've even started
> > to use the Gnome Files program fairly regularly!)
> >
> > For me the disk space for WSL effectively comes from Linux because I
> > don't generally have a Windows-only computer and I try to give most of
> > the space to Linux.  I haven't really found WSL very useful.
> > I understand that others do find it useful.
>
> WSL is useful enough that my laptop no longer has a linux install.
> I have dedicated linux machines in the house, but for my laptop windows
> with WSL works just fine and avoids the hassle of dealing with the linux
> drivers when it comes to suspend and the dual intel/nvidia video chip
> setup and such.  And I can play my games.  So since what I do is run
> a web browser, play some games, and run a bash shell to do whatever
> command line stuff I need, it just seems to work better.
>
> I find graphical programs hugely annoying for file management compared
> to a CLI, so gnome has nothing useful to offer me, and winscp is just
> too much trouble with all that clicking.
>
> powershell's syntax is just too weird and verbose for me to bother
> looking at.
>
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