The WSL2 Guide I Wish I Had: 4 Gotchas That Will Eat Your Afternoon

WSL2 Gotchas: The Things That Bite You After a Year of Daily Use WSL2 is a fantastic development environment on Windows. It's also a system with sharp edges that the official docs rarely highlight — the kind you only discover after losing an afternoon to a process eating 300% CPU for no apparent reason. This guide documents four specific problems I've hit repeatedly over the last year while using WSL2 as my main development environment for Docker-based projects. For each one: the root cause, why