I’m using a Dell XPS laptop running a Windows 10 Home OS. I don’t know if virtualization affects the performance of Holonix since my edition of Windows isn’t Hyper-V capable (total shot in the dark here. 
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AFAIK Win10 Home edition doesn’t support WSL.
Kept the issue you created as a request for adding test automation for WSL2 environments. Created issue #150 to address the problem.
@mechanicko are you using the Windows installation method from https://developer.holochain.org/docs/install/ ? If so, then you’re using Vagrant and VirtualBox, and I would guess that that is somewhat slower than either Hyper-V virtualisation or bare-metal-on-WSL.
(NB looks like Win10 Home now supports WSL via the store, even though it now uses Hyper-V. I guess there’s some sort of ‘virtual machine platform’ component that you can install on Home, according to the article. Note that this means you won’t be able to use VirtualBox anymore, unless you upgrade to the version that supports Hyper-V.)
i got WSL2 working on a standard spectre laptop i bought from jb-hifi… nothing crazy there…
i did have to sign up to the early access program from windows though
Whenever Microsoft release the new major update for Windows 10, WSL2 will be available to all (no need to enroll for Insiders), including the Home edition. WSL2 is supposed to bring a lot of improvements.
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Indeed i have checked and it will be released for everybody in the windows 10 version 2004: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/wsl2-will-be-generally-available-in-windows-10-version-2004/
Please see my last comment on the issue at Github. Even though build failed, initial issue is fixed. Closing this topic also. Cheers.
this is great, WSL2 seemed much more solid overall to me than WSL1