WSL1

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2020–2023), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with WSL1, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 5 complaints

Linux filesystem semantics on NTFS cause a noticeable slowdown2023-08-06
Occasional nuisances needing to specify Windows mount point and PhpStorm connecting2021-07-22
Apt-installed apps fail to run because required shims are missing2020-10-07
Pages time out, so the person can't do WordPress development2020-07-13
Slow file I/O makes IDEs on large projects in the WSL filesystem unworkable2020-04-15