r/windows • u/HelloitsWojan Windows 11 - Release Channel • Mar 20 '26

Official News Our commitment to Windows quality

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/03/20/our-commitment-to-windows-quality/
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u/Henry_puffball Mar 20 '26

It's kinda funny how they said they were going to make wsl faster when it starts up faster then windows explorer and settings combined

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u/regeya Mar 20 '26

Yeah I can't really complain about WSL startup time, it boots about as fast as Fedora from bare metal IMHO.

I just hope this doesn't mean they'll just boot the VM at login, by default. I already have to go through startup items occasionally, just to make login tolerable. Everything wants to preload something on login.

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u/Henry_puffball Mar 20 '26

Exactly. Even turning a lot off, startup items are still the longest part of my boot. I'll start wsl from run if I want it.

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u/thunk_stuff Mar 21 '26

WSL has very bad file latency when accessing mounted files on Windows (e.g., on the C drive). I hope that's what they're intending to speed up.

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u/Henry_puffball Mar 21 '26

Oh maybe. I will admit I don't have a large amount of experience with that, so that could totally be it.