You can access them from the rest of the system. For normal usage the performance is completely acceptable but for development tasks it matters.

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markstock 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

People who run WSL are not normal users. The filesystem problems make Windows+WSL feel like a Trabant when you're used to a Porsche.

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hparadiz 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Just copy it into the WSL file system

Yea bro totally. Totally. I'm gonna copy 2TB of media into the WSL virtual disk just so ffmpeg can run a little faster but still way slower than simply running linux.

(I beta tested the shit out of WSL1 and 2) before I wised up and just installed Gentoo forever.

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weird-eye-issue 7 hours ago | parent [-]

You can run that directly on Windows.

But either way yeah most people aren't dealing with large media libraries that's obviously a little more difficult. But if you are primarily operating on them with WSL then you would just keep them in the WSL file system and you could access them from Windows whenever you need to...

	▲	benatkin 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Indeed. I have my agent edited files in podman in Lima, under two layers, and it's fine, because I do most stuff within my podman VMs. (I have shared volumes so I can review things before pushing the changes to my forge in separate containers that the agent can't access. When I need stuff on my mac, which is the exception, not the rule, I just copy them, putting them in a tar or zip if it's a lot of files.