WSL file permissions - online edit of handbook/troggle/troglaptop.html

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<h3>WSL on Windows</h3>
<p>If you are using an old laptop, you may have to run Ubuntu in WSL1 rather than WSL2. WSL2 requires virtualisation features that your hardware may not support if it is more than about 5 years old.
<p>The standard documentation for Ubuntu or debian below all works, but you should first skim the
<a href="../computing/winlaptop.html">Windows expo laptop</a> configuration too. So far as expo software is concerned, WSL1 and WSL2 behave identically.
<a href="../computing/winlaptop.html">Windows expo laptop</a> configuration too. <em>So far as expo software</em> is concerned, WSL1 and WSL2 behave identically. <p>...Except for file permissions, which can cost you a day of frustration if you are unlucky. See <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/file-permissions">WSL File Permissions</a>.
<h3>Why no Docker container?</h3>
<p>Yes, it is true that this would greatly speed up on-boarding new programmers.