Here's an oddity in my adventures with #emacs. I've noticed that it runs faster in pretty much every way in a virtual machine with #linuxmint than in Windows10. Especially since I've noticed that lots of other apps run more slowly in the VM. Hmm.
@birv2 What's your Emacs config look like? Is it doing things that has it calling a bunch of small CLI helper processes? fork+exec is much faster on Linux than on Windows[1] (or macOS, for that matter).
[1]: The last Windows I was even kinda knowledgable about was Vista, so maybe that's not true anymore on 10.
@lukeshu @birv2 No it's still true, magit on windows 10 for example is painfully slower. Just barely usable IMO if you disable some magit sections. I'm seriously considering moving my development environtment entirely to WSL2 for this reason. If it was my laptop (it's work controlled) it would not be running windows in the first place.
@ambihelical @birv2 @lukeshu I was told that's due to the peculiaries of NTFS, I/O and the file system API. The same reason why npm install is much slower on Windows