A SOLUTIONS TO COMMON WSL PROBLEMS
It’s hard for me to imagine doing the kind of data analysis work I do without Linux. However, many Linux tools that I rely on every day simply don’t exist in the Windows ecosystem. Using just Windows, you can’t make your datasets searchable using Aleph, for example, or quickly spin up popular SQL servers to import leaked databases. Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) allows you to do these tasks and considerably more, including running command line tools, in Windows without needing to set up your own Linux VM.
WSL generally works well, but you may encounter a few issues, particularly related to disk performance, when you attempt to crunch data stored on Windows-formatted disks from your Linux terminal. Some ...
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