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While WSL2 has a better overall performance than its predecessor, it’s known for hogging a lot of memory. WSL’s read and write times also take a hit if you try to modify or save documents to the Windows file system.
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WSL2 is faster than WSL1.
WSL2 can be slower if you are modifying Windows files as opposed to the files in the WSL system.
It can be a big issue. The newest release offers some improvements.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-subsystem-for-linux-september-2023-update/
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