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Welcome to the WSL wiki!

I'm starting this repo primarily as a spot to collect notes - maybe this will be useful to others :-)

WSL2 Commands: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/basic-commands

Tail logfiles in WSL -- (tail -f doesn't work)

tail  -f ---disable-inotify file

Note There are 3 dashes in before the disable-inofity

Background

I began programming in Unix in college, became a professional programmer on the Amiga, and eventually made the move to developing customer focused software on Windows.

I stopped using Windows in about 2008, for reasons(tm). From there I went to Apple and then Linux (Ubuntu).

I recently installed Windows 10 on a new machine for a toy project, and was impressed with some of what I found -- then more recently I built a new machine and bought a laptop, coincidentally as WSL was starting to gain some traction. TBH, I'm really pretty surprised. Included here will be notes, some from me, some copy/pasted from other sources, to help remind myself of the things I've been doing to get things set up and working the way I like.

oh - and BTW - VSCode, WSL, Win10... Jeebus Microsoft - nice job - I feel like I'm in a professional operating system again.

more notes to steal and add to wiki - good wsl2 stuff: https://www.sitepoint.com/wsl2/