Am I the only one using Windows as my primary OS for development? I hope not. 😅 . I've built a completely free and open source windows based tool to monitor and analyze your system's power and battery usage over time! 🔋 🚀 Just launched on ProductHunt right now at: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/powir - Do check it out and give any feedback. 😃 Hackernews Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23515694

I prefer Windows as well - but the stack at my current company makes it very difficult to stay on Windows - so I am on a Mac with Windows dual booted to play Halo on 😛

haha! I had the same setup (Linux + Windows dual boot) but since WSL 2 - I simply had to move to full windows 😃

Curious how your experience with WSL 2 is. Also, upvoted! 🔥

I was on WSL1 and got my stuff to work (kinda) but then porting to WSL2 broke everything for me 😕 and I didn’t spend enough time trying to get it to work again.

@helpful-raincoat-87337 I've received the update yesterday only - but prior to that I had moved my dev work to Docker and virtual machines (using hyper-v). Now that WSL 2 is here (it comes with an actual linux kernel with full windows interop availability!) Just setup my terminal yesteday: https://twitter.com/ugupta41/status/1271775305531682821 - Will update in few days over how's my experience been!

I tried it in late 2016, early 2017 I guess and it barely worked. Haven’t tried it since.

@ancient-area-35708 I had tried it as soon as it had come out. I think I was on the Slow lane for Windows Updates as well.

Yep. You guys have to give it an another go! (just beware of this issue: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4166 although I haven't faced it so far otherwise I can't stress how good wsl2 is!)

Just out of curiosity. What stack are you generally working on?

I'm all over the place currently. 😅 But usually its Python, Node, React/Vue, PHP (Laravel) as my go-to languages/frameworks. Field wise: Full Stack, ML and System/Developer Tools.

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I've been on WSL2 for around a year now (windows insider build). Apart from that one memory consumption issue linked above that I intermittently face, it's been very smooth. I use WSL2 + VSCode remote extension for all my dev work (angular, dotnetcore, some vue)

By remote extension, do you mean the one where you code on an instance on the cloud?