Going Overboard with WSL metadata

Nerd Sniped It all started with a simple tweet from @nunixtech: @VirtualScooley @richturn_ms @tara_msft @CraigWilhite @benhillis In order to Thank You for the new Distros, here is a small hack from your "favorite" WSLCorsair. the mount options might need some review though. @bketelsen this might help you (do I enter the HAT gift list? ?) pic.twitter.com/7ouUX5Jm3h — Nuno do Carmo (@nunixtech) March 6, 2018 Nuno showed how to use new metadata support in Windows Subsystem For Linux to enable Linux permissions and metadata on a mounted Windows share.

My Cross-Platform Dev Setup on Surface Laptop

I want to document a setup that I’ve found that works really well for me using Windows 10 and Windows Subsystem for Linux for general development. Before we dive into any specifics, though, I want to provide some background and explain my objectives which will help to frame the decisions I’ve made and the trade-offs chosen to reach a more ideal environment. Objective My objective is to build a development environment that is comfortable for Open Source development with a target of mostly Linux servers.

Switching - Irony and Operating systems

TLDR; I’ve traded in my Mac on a Surface Pro. Here’s why:

Running i3 Window Manager on Bash For Windows

That might be the longest title for a blog post ever, but it’s kind of hard to describe what’s going on here if you’re not familiar with the latest updates from Microsoft land. Here’s a quick refresher: