windoze tips

Windows is truly terrible, here’s some snippets of how I’m coping. It’s been 6 months so just trying to recall things:

• https://scoop.sh/
• WSL2 with kernel built with options for vcan + native docker (IE not the host docker integration thing)
• tui emacs + alacritty
  • specifically NOT gui emacs, the wayland weston bridge thing is kinda buggy
  • sanity: make sure alacritty is using your GPU drivers and not EG intel fallback ones
• start menu -> performance -> “adjust the appearance and performance options”
  • uncheck everything except “smooth edges of screen fonts”

[wsl2]

# don't auto shutdown
vmIdleTimeout=-1

memory=22GB

# was attempting to get udp forwarding with mirrored, didn't appear to work
# networkingMode=mirrored

debugConsole=true

# networkingMode = bridged

vmSwitch = Default Switch

# build file from kernel:
kernel=C:\\Users\\user\\vmlinux2

usbipd list
usbipd attach --wsl --hardware-id 0c72:000c
usbipd attach --wsl --busid 2-11

wsl --system -d Debian pkill weston

lpath() {
    # 'C:\Users\user\OneDrive - Corp\Documents'
    # -> /mnt/c/Users/user/OneDrive - Corp/Documents
    result=$(sed -e 's#C:\\#/mnt/c/#' -e 's#\\#/#g' <<< "$*")
    echo "$result"
}

wpath() {
    p=$(realpath "$*" | sed 's#/#\\#g')
    echo "\\\\wsl.localhost\\Debian$p"
}