The real answer here is to run X on windows and run vscode from inside wsl

I went from 8 years on osx to ragequitting in disgust after fighting brew for a whole day.

Spent half a year using plain windows, was not happy. Wsl came out and I was more happy, but since my editor ran in windows it kept screwing up locks and whatnot. It even corrupted my git making me lose my work a few times.

Spent half a year on ubuntu, disgusted with how bad linux is for desktop usage i went back to wsl again, this time running Mobaxterm.

It works sooooo well. The vscode and gitkraken windows run from wsl and show up as native apps in win10. All the awesomeness of a «real» desktop environment with proper drivers, wifi not dying after closing laptop lid etc while also having a proper nix env to do my work in.

I’m very happy with this, even more so than the «golden years» before osx started to decline in quality.

This would go against all I have been told and taught about WSL: Don’t mix and match access through WSL and native Windows to the same resource.

This were a bit like running the LS on a remote computer, which is currently not possible as far as I know.

At my working place I tried WSL a bit and ran into nothing but trouble, setting up a Ubuntu VM was straight forward and “just works”.

I use WSL full time and VSCode (installed on Windows).

However, I also run my web apps in Docker so I don’t have to worry about installing things directly inside of WSL’s filesystem. At some point in the future VSCode is going to support seamlessly finding interpreter and library code running in a container instead of the local machine, so if you happen to use Docker, you’ll get the best of both worlds.

For the time being, I don’t even use extensions like Elixir-LS. I just installed vscode-elixir to get syntax highlighting.

Overall I’m super happy with the set up. I never liked heavy auto-complete because I find it creates micro-stutters and 95% of the time it gets in the way. My philosophy has always been to use snippets (works just fine with WSL) to help deal with code complete / boilerplate.