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> WSL slow things down quite a bit, starting/stopping a server, deployments, git workflow...

There's zero reason (and has been for quite some time, at least a couple years) for those things to be slow - the trick is to 1) make triple sure you're running WSL2 and 2) never store anything on the Windows drive, keep everything in WSL2 home directory. it's basically native Linux speed then.

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Ah! thanks for the tips! I just set up a new environment and will be testing speeds for sure, yeah, I was using the /mnt/ path structure to reach the projects from the Windows file system.

I made the mistake to store it on the windows drive. When I moved it I was blown out of the water of the performance. I got some insane speeds that I didn't think was possible

Exactly - and you can still access it from Windows with \\wsl$\ if you need it.

Yeah but if you're a n00b like me and prefer using a git client I had to install it in wsl to be able to use it for some reason

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