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I hear WSL is snappier. Sadly NTFS optimizes for a completely different file usage pattern than extfs and the native win emacs has poor performance.

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I ran Emacs on Windows and used it every day for most of the past year, first natively and then in WSL. I can confirm that performance is many, many times better on WSL, in lots of ways.

Unfortunately, WSL's GUI support is extremely buggy on multimonitor setups (and maybe elsewhere), so you may have to restart your Emacs session often to get window management or even just clicking around to work right.

Have MS managed to figure out window snapping for WSLg yet? From what I've heard (maybe this is dated) there are a bunch of limitations that come from them using a primitive compositor for their Wayland setup.

Xpra (or even a full X server, if you don't mind losing X clients on sleep) has been a lot better on the integration front.

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