Thank you! I'm still getting inconclusive results. I've googled "Ubuntu – 
WSL: Am I running version 1 or version 2":

* running "wsl -l -v" in a windows shell gives me:
NAME STATE VERSION
Ubuntu Running 1
Getting a version number at all is apparently an indication of running WSL2.

* running "uname -r" (without options, uname only given back "Linux" which 
I don't think is distinguishing information) I get
4.4.0-19041-Microsoft

I guess 4<19. On the other hand, 4.4 > 4.19, so I'm not sure what that is 
telling me.

In any case: do people get "fair" performance under WSL or WSL2? Does 
Cygwin give better performance? Is development even possible/convenient 
under Cygwin?

My impression (with both my laptop and the Surface Pro 7 having an intel 
core i5) was that I should be getting similar performance. On the other 
hand, the Surface doesn't seem to show any fan action at any point whereas 
the laptop is quite happy whirring away whenever some load comes its way, 
so it could just be that the Surface is passively cooled and therefore 
throttled into computational mediocrity (the surface is really just a 
tablet to write on and as a tablet OS, win10 seems to be performing just 
fine). I think the students who'd be using Win10 for development would have 
beefier machines.


On Tuesday, 1 June 2021 at 01:36:31 UTC-7 [email protected] wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 2:25 AM Nils Bruin <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Update:
> > wsl --help isn't particularly eager to divulge version information, but 
> some of it inadvertently has slipped through: in the description of the 
> "--shutdown" option there is a mention of "the WSL 2 lightweight utility 
> virtual machine",
> > so unless wsl has a mysterious option that has a side-effect to kill any 
> wsl2 virtual machines that happen to be running alongside it, I think 
> there's a good chance I'm using WSL2 here.
>
> "From the WSL shell prompt, run uname. If the kernel version => 4.19,
> it's WSL Version 2."
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