Clojurians Log v2

@seancorfield as you are using WSL2 as your primary dev env (for me its on a machine I use for heavy duty tasks and Windows testing), I wondered about your memory setting for WSL2. If you don't limit memory for WSL2, eventually it can eat up your whole RAM and starve Windows. So I've set the limit to 112GB (of a total of 128GB) for WSL2. But if you would have a laptop with only 16GB, I wonder how much you would have to give to Windows for it to still function properly. E.g. a divide of 8 / 8 only leaves 8GB for WSL2 which is a bit on the low side for what I typically do.

@borkdude I haven't changed the defaults (and I have 16GB on the laptop). I run Docker with Percona, Redis, and two Elastic Search instances and a bunch of Clojure stuff and VS Code. No problems so far.

How long do you typically run WSL without restarting?

thanks

@borkdude Sorry, on vacation so I've been away from my house for half the day... I leave WSL running "all the time", unless it wants to reboot for a Windows update.

It says it's been up for 5 days right now.

Ah I see. It's good to hear you didn't have problems yet, some people do, as WSL, once it claims memory, never releases it.

Have a nice vacation :)

My biggest memory user is Mailbird 🙂 then WSL.

Oh, it's only a vacation from work, not from OSS 🙂

sounds like my vacations ;)

I was amazed today that I could just run emacs.exe under cmd.exe and pwsh.exe and it all just worked. Even clojure-lsp auto-installed itself and all. https://twitter.com/borkdude/status/1473599014859902990

I mean, in the terminal, not gui

Yeah, the integration is amazing really. My only gripe is that WSLg doesn't support "snap" for windows yet, but the team told me "it's coming!"...

The above doesn't use WSL btw, it's Windows emacs.exe

but I start pwsh.exe or cmd.exe through an ssh connection to WSL to test Windows stuff, although I can run it directly via a Remote Desktop as well

Ah, gotcha...

but I agree, the integration is awesome... if someone gave me a powerful laptop, I might be temped to switch over ;)

Docker performance is better on Windows + WSL too compared to Apple (I'm still not on M1)

I'm on my last Mac -- a 2012 iMac (27") -- and it's HD is getting flaky (so much so that O/S upgrades refuse to run so I'm still on 10.12). I've had Macs since '92 because I preferred Mac OS over Windows (but I've used every Windows since 3.11). Until Windows 8. I've been on Insider builds of Windows for six or seven years now on my laptops and my current one is a Surface Laptop 3 and I love it. With WSL, I really enjoy working on Windows and overall prefer Windows 11 (and 10) to macOS. So when this desktop dies, I'll get a Windows machine to replace it.

I recently upgraded to Windows 11, it was smooth, everything still worked

I'm on build 22523 right now. Voice Access just got rolled out and it's very impressive.

My WSLg version is 1.0.29 right now. Not sure what's the released version? cat /mnt/wslg/versions.txt will tell you.

I'll have a look, powering on my PC

$ cat /mnt/wslg/versions.txt
WSLg ( x86_64 ): 1.0.26+Branch.main.Sha.26ce2c09b86442f3c7f4f6462f770ed2afa76a25
Mariner: VERSION="1.0.20210224"
FreeRDP: b05321cd4e6a862aef76163a69db4e1910245736
weston: 46756d0e77e5c01b5995fbbee6f3ab0db9b30612
pulseaudio: 2f0f0b8c3872780f15e275fc12899f4564f01bd5
mesa:

Same version of Mariner, FreeRDP, and pulseaudio. My weston is b49e194... Interesting.

I'm glad MS is doing a lot more stuff for developers these days. And a lot of OSS stuff too.

Indeed. I have a beast of a machine here with a 3950x 16 core Ryzen processor and 128GB of memory. I installed Tailscale on it, and when I have it powered on, I can connect to it from anywhere on the world via RDP

and of course via ssh/WSL2, but I have to be logged in for that first. Sometimes this machine reboots itself and for the life of me I haven't figured out how I can disable that, but when it does, I can connect via Tailscale and start stuff up again

I still like having a portable dev setup that I can use when I'm offline 🙂

I like portability too, I have two Macbooks for that. I use this machine for heavy duty work and Windows testing

For some things I need "real" linux, macOS doesn't qualify there, and I can use that machine for those things too

I expected that I would switch over to the PC, but I've never actually had a keyboard connected to it for more than an hour, I do everything from my laptop since it's just more convenient to be able to sit in different places

Do you perhaps have any recommendations for (local) backup software? Time Machine has failed on me and I migrated to Acronis True Image, but they have moved to a subscription model now

On the plus side, Acronis works under Windows too

Between OneDrive and GitHub, I stopped using actual backup software. I have so little stuff actually on a local drive that isn't also "somewhere else".

(we have an Office 365 Home subscription so we have 1TB on OneDrive included -- plus all my photos and music are up on Google/YouTube now... that's how I migrated away from stuff on the Mac)

Makes sense. I use Dropbox. I've been migrating out of the Apple Photo stuff to raw folders to become less reliant on that ecosystem.

DropBox is expensive for anything beyond the basic service.

I use Dropbox to share my stuff with my accountant, I pay 10 euros a month, but yeah, I could move to something else probably

I have 2TB storage there. I'm only at 8.5%

I have a basic DropBox account for my ebooks since Manning and PragProg have integrations with it. I have ~100 tech books in PDF form there.

I use that too yes

So Microsoft Office 365 is 99 EUR/dollar a year for 6 persons in total? Or per person?

For five or six licenses, installations, yeah. I don't remember the details.

that's a pretty good deal it seems

We have Office on three machines here, plus two phones and an iPad I think. Maybe two iPads. The device licenses are free, so we're only using three actual licenses. And I get Skype credit too. 60 minutes a month I think?

Makes sense.

I've never used OneDrive. Does it work similarly to Dropbox, as in, I could use this to share a (mutable) folder with my accountant?

Yeah, you can have shared folders, public folders, shared files, full read/write control.

Thanks, just installed it. I'll play around and perhaps migrate, thanks!