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Quick answer: On Windows 10 build 20H1 (19041+) and all Windows 11 versions: open PowerShell as Administrator, run wsl --install, restart, then create a Linux username — the whole process takes under 5 minutes. On older Windows 10 builds 18362–19040: enable two Windows features via dism.exe, download the WSL2 kernel update from aka.ms/wsl2kernel, run […]
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Quick answer: On Ubuntu 22.04/24.04 with ext4 or XFS, create an 8 GB swap file in 5 commands: dd to allocate, chmod 600, mkswap, swapon, then add one line to /etc/fstab to survive reboots. On ZFS (OpenZFS 2.1+), create a dedicated zvol with primarycache=metadata and logbias=throughput — without these two parameters, heavy swap activity evicts […]
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Quick answer: The fastest WSL file transfer method depends on what you are moving — File Explorer works for one-off files, cp for single copies, rsync -avP for directories (resumes interrupted transfers, skips unchanged files), and tar -czf for large archives going to Windows. Cross-filesystem transfers between /mnt/c/ and /home/ run at 200–500 MB/s on […]
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