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		dan-robertson on Sept 5, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Emacs Bedrock: A minimal Emacs starter kit The big issue here is that spawning processes is (was?) much slower on windows. There’s also wsl2 where I think Emacs will work fine.

ljm on Sept 5, 2023 | [–]

I run it inside windows terminal on WSL2 and it's smooth as butter. Despite losing out on some GUI-specific features I think I prefer it.

lost_tourist on Sept 5, 2023 | [–]

Still is but it works pretty well under wsl.

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