

Docker Desktop uses the dynamic memory allocation feature in WSL 2 to greatly improve the resource consumption. The best feature of WSL 2 is the fact, that this is the new de facto-standard backend for Docker Desktop on Windows. The goal is to increase the file system performance and adding full system call compatibility. It's basically a native Linux kernel in Windows 10. WSL 2 is a new architecture that completely changes how Linux distributions interact with Windows. This was the first release, where WSL 2 (Windows Subsystem Linux) was officially available as a part of Windows 10. I also used WSL 1, but accessing files from an NTFS drive under /mnt/c/docs was slow.īy the end of May 2020, Microsoft started distributing the Windupdate. composer update took minutes on large projects and every page load was slow. It worked well, but it was painfully slow.


No need for mutagen.io anymore.įor years, I'm using DrupalVM and Vagrant on my Windows machine combined with Vagrant WinNFSd. Revised blog post: The latest PHPStorm version supports indexing and file listener directly on the WSL folder \\wsl$\.
