![]() Having said that, at the time of writing, the WSL2 hypervisor is a bit poor at letting RAM go again… But you can specify a maximum it’s allowed to use. With WSL RAM is allocated and freed as needed by the WSL system. If you allocate 2Gigabytes to your Linux VM, that 2 Gigabytes are no longer available to your Windows host. Memory allocation: Traditional VM software such as VirtualBox will allocate the RAM that you’ve specified you want for your VM upfront.Most of it must be loaded with Windows booting. Starting the VM and then booting Linux could be around 20-25seconds. Boot time: Linux boots pretty quickly these days to be fair, but it still takes around 20 seconds or so.WSL2 is a case of making sure you’re running the latest Windows build ( Windows 10.2004 at time of writing ) and installing Ubuntu20.04 from the Microsoft Store. Finding the files to download, including the VM software itself initially. Setup: Installing Linux isn’t for the faint of heart and takes a reasonable amount of time.There’s a few disadvantages that I can see for running Linux on a VM under Windows 10 on a Surface Pro Disadvantages of a VM for running Linux with a GUI on a Surface Pro 4 Microsoft allowing me to use Linux and Windows side by side… Benefits of WSL2 versus a normal Virtual Machine Environment?įor sure, it’s been possible to run Linux in Windows using a virtual machine environment such as VirtualBox or VMWare but these have some significant trade off compared to a ‘bare-metal’ Linux installation or even it turns out, WSL2. WSL2 – Windows Subsystem for Linux V2 is leaps and bounds ahead of WSL1 – and both were unthinkable a few years back. The solution, WSL2 running a full Ubuntu Gnome desktop is what I’m going to show you in this article. And Windows 10 just works better on the Surface Pro 4 hardware. It’s so thin, light and once you’ve fixed the screen flicker it’s just an all round powerful yet light, transportable 2-in-1 device that I’ve yet to find a sensible competitor for. I love the privacy aspects of Firefox under Linux.īut I love the form-factor of the Surface Pro 4 device. (It can be done with Windows to be fair, but it’s a bit of a faff). ![]() I love the integration that Gnome Evolution offers me with my Nextcloud server for syncing contacts, calendar and tasks across my devices. I love the latest incarnations of the Gnome GUI. Windows purists would also argue that this is in fact the worst of both worlds. Linux purists would argue that this is in fact the worst of both worlds. That’s what this article is about – like you couldn’t guess. Can I Get The Best Of Both Windows And Linux then? Whether Windows Mail does for self-hosted e-mail is debateable, but it’s likely that users will have their data slurped, plus Windows itself sends a bunch of telemetry back to MS. ![]() GMail obviously collects information for Google. Unless you’re going to use Google Chrome for Linux it’s unlikely any data is going to get back to Microsoft or Google while you’re using Linux. Linux runs using Open Source software, and is inherently (generally) much better from a privacy standpoint. But my Mrs uses Affinity – and to be honest the Affinity GUI is just nicer. Yes, I know Inkscape and Gimp are available on Linux (and Windows) and they’re good.
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