Quite recently I was faced with a strange error coming up when migrating a Windows 10 machine in VMWare Workstation to Windows 11. During the process I always got the WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR BSOD. After reading countless articles I suspected it might occur due to concurrency issues due to sitting on a rather slow ESATA drive. And…
Enabling the Windows Subsystem for Linux to include support for Wayland and X server related scenarios. More on this existing New Feature can be found here: https://github.com/microsoft/wslg Enjoy!
And it’s full of new features! And in 64 bit… See the full announcement here: Visual Studio 2022 | Visual Studio Blog (microsoft.com)
Don’t you find yourself typing the usual bash commandos into PowerShell from time to time? The natural second thought is often: „ah, I have to install cygwin or something“… but since I’m constantly switching back and forth between the Linux and Windows world, I of course also have WSL 2 on my Windows workstation ……
It’s always interesting to look out for post from Scott Hanselman… This one is no exception: Take your Windows Terminal and PowerShell to the next level with Terminal Icons – Scott Hanselman’s Blog I’m a big fan of the Windows Terminal application and I can recommend it for everyone!
For those who frequently need a virtualized development environment, I recommend the following Microsoft site: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines/ A complete virtual machine for the most common environments (VMWare, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and Parallels) is offered there. Very practical, especially if you don’t want to keep your own machines up to date all the time.
Another great post from Scott Hanselman about keeping WSL instances up to date automatically within Windows 10: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/keeping-your-wsl-linux-instances-up-to-date-automatically-within-windows-10 I’ve done this on my development machine (which is running Windows 10 Pro) like this: Here’s a sample run of the script: As you can see, this is a Powershell script that does all for my 2…