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 you can hack it just enough to work (sometimes), but it is nothing like using Linux natively.
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).
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 you can hack it just enough to work (sometimes), but it is nothing like using Linux natively.
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).