Windows 10: As a developer, should I install dev stuff on WSL or on Windows11 in my case? What are the...

As a developer, I am confused whether I should install development software on WSL itself or on Windows. For instance, installing Docker. When installing Docker Desktop you can select Windows containers or WSL backend. I don't understand what's the difference, the pros, and cons etc. and which one should I choose.Other widely used SDKs and tools such as Git, JRE, Python, and Node pose the question of an installation place as well.If it depends what are the criteria for the decision-making in these cases or whatnot?I couldn't find any information on this topic on the Web. Does Microsoft have an

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WSL & website development

For years I've used the Windows environment to develop websites that eventually end up in a Linux environment. As an experiment I've installed Ubuntu 18 in WSL, along with an Apache server, MySQL & PHP. Then cloned one of my github repos in my home folder
(to allow IDE access) and opened the project in Apache Netbeans 11.1. So far so good, altho' I wasn't enamored with having to connect to the site with http://127.0.0.1:8000.

What surprised me, though, was how sluggish the site was. The worst case was generating a PDF - in Windows it was less than 2 seconds. In WSL it exceeded PHP's 30 second timeout.

I'm interested in hearing whether others have tried similar experiments and how successful (or not) that was.

 

Install WSL issue

thanks, I've tried all of it including troubleshooting section.

The only step I didn't try is installing kernel update package which fails because subsystem is up to date.

Anyway I've given up from WSL and using Hyper-V, I don't need linux often maybe once in a month just to test some stuff so it's not a big issue.

 

Permission error on WSL 2 when trying to setup a nodejs project

TLR;

Code:

Can't use npm global package in /mnt/c/Users.username. It works in WSL home (~) though.

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Code:

Currently, I have all my web projects in /mnt/c/Users/[username]/dev.

Steps I took:

1. I open the terminal and access the above folder via a symlink.
   
2. Installed p5js-cli package globally but when I get to use it I get the below output:
   

Code:

☁ dev p5 new test+
Creating new p5.js project in test...[Error: failed to mmap. Could not write data: Permission denied] {errno: -1,errorFunction: 'Clone.clone'}

I'm struggling to get my head around file permissions in this case.

Code:

If I run ls -lah in the windows folder I get the below output which I understand it means I should have the correct access to those folders and the output is consistent
 with the files on the WSL side.drwxrwxrwx 1 username username 4.0K Aug 25 23:31...I have installed vue-cli and was able to successfully use it to create a project in /mnt/c/Users/username/dev , could this be an issue with p5js-cli and not the wsl setup?