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My computer literally killed itself when I tried to run a Wine app and a Steam game at the same time
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WSL's performance is drastically better when you don't save your files on Windows' filesystem.
That is because windows filesystem is mounted to WSL through NFS and while transferring large files through that is ok, transferring huge amounts of small files is really slow.
Windows has dead slow file operations natively. Like orders of magnitude slower.
Hmm, that would fit the pattern, as it sometimes also got stuck on just downloading things, even when the DNS config hadn't been reset.
Do you need to partition the disk then, to place ext4 or similar into a separate partition? I'm not sure, we can partition the disk in that corporate Windows setup our company uses...
Look up the difference between WSL1 and WSL2. If you're using 2 just make sure you're writing into /anything other than /mnt/driveletter, that should be ext4. For 1 it's directly mounted on the ntfs filesystem and you'll always have performance problems.