Got my new Windows work laptop today. Will be sharing anecdotes in this thread.

First anecdote: WSL is a game changer. It’s ~9x faster to clean compile my main work project (Cargo workspace) on WSL compared to on Windows. Takes 22s on WSL, 33s on my M1 Max, and ~3 minutes on Windows. Single threaded WSL is also faster than M1 Max.

The most annoying behavior so far is that the trackpad is terrible and double/triple mouse clicks selects text differently than in macOS.

Also, copy/paste is disabled by default in the terminal(???). After some fiddling I managed to get Ctrl-Shift-C/V working, but it’s still confusing to remember to use shift in the terminal.

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@olafurpg try 🪟+v (windows key +V) for clipboard history, can come in pretty handy

@spoltier I’ll give that a try! Windows Terminal supports ctrl-v so my pain is somewhat alleviated for now 😅

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