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WSL Integration
Suggested new feature or improvement
It'd be nice to integrate WSL since it is my primary local dev environment
Scenario
When cloning repositories, I'd like to set it up in a path inside WSL
Additional details
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Second this, would love to see some WSL integrations, for example also:
- Managing WSL itself, monitoring its resources etc. via widgets
- Using the SSH keychain to open connections via OpenSSH in the WSL terminal, rather than through CMD on the Windows host machine
- Running all the bootstrapping command for new projects within WSL
+1, WSL integration is critical for me to leverage devhome. Looking forward to having this supported in Devhome.
We've got work to do on the WinGet side to help here:
- https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/3320
Support to all the above comments, i think i speak for near all of Devs when i said that we have set up our entire development environment inside WSL. But needless to say that DevHome features are looking good. 🤩 🎉
Also would love to see WSL2 integration (or perhaps a future WSL3 feature?). Dev Home and more specifically Dev Drives are quite interesting to me. But as someone who strictly uses a WSL2 environment on their Windows PC I see no reason to utilize this new feature and file system.
If the reported performance benefits of dev drives can be made possible in the linux filesystem that would be quite impressive. Say even if it's just some optimization of having the WSL VHD on a DevDrive ReFS partition, or mounting a win Dev Drive within WSL and having the benefits that way. Of course the project management aspects of DevHome would also be nice.
