Why I Use WSL Instead of Bare Metal Linux
How I stopped breaking my Linux systems, embraced Windows as a productivity constraint, and used WSL to get actual work done.
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How I stopped breaking my Linux systems, embraced Windows as a productivity constraint, and used WSL to get actual work done.
A follow-up to my Kindle Linux post: fixing KOReader's delayed highlight refresh on rotation, and cleaning up a landscape cropping bug in the Kobo-style screensaver plugin.
How I jailbroke my Kindle Basic 10th Gen, escaped the Amazon framework, tuned memory, and hosted a local web server to truly own the device.
A practical breakdown of why WSL cross-boundary file operations feel slow, the 9P bottlenecks behind it, and the tuning changes that produced near-2x throughput gains.
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