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That's great news, thinking about replacing my Ubuntu Linux install for Windows and having WSL2 if these changes and performance improvements are accurate. Windows Terminal looks pretty cool too, reminds me of Terminal.app on macOS with blurred backgrounds and theming too.

Very cool blog post!

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I've done exactly that. I had some issues with WSL but WSL2 does what I need it to do. Specifically what I need it to do is cross-compile the linux kernel (among other things) for embedded devices. This works flawlessly.

Almost all my work has moved to WSL - the remaining bit (like UART and JTAG access) could be done with better USB support. So I'm definitely hoping for that!

The Windows Terminal app is very snazzy. I have only run into one problem with it, relating to using tmux.

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/176

This is not a showstopper for me though, and I have been using it as my primary terminal application for many months.

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