Join us tomorrow for our #DDEV Live Contributor Training on DDEV Docker Architecture, 8am US MT, 4pm CET. We'll have a great time. Please sign up at https://www.meetup.com/ddev-events/events/301226291/ if you haven't already, and it will give you calendar info for your timezone.
In the #drupal#ddev KB, I see this note: "Projects should live under the home directory of the Linux filesystem. WSL2’s Linux filesystem (e.g. /home/ <your_username> ) is much faster and has proper permissions, so keep your projects there and not in the slower Windows filesystem (/mnt/c)."
I understand how NTFS adds overhead for reading/writing files, and can cause potentially confusing permission issues, but is "much faster" really true? Like how much much faster?
@ddev That makes sense. I was expecting maybe a 25% performance increase, assuming it was solely typical NTFS issues, but it is literally a 5x-10x speed increase now that I tested. I use WSL on my main filesystem all the time seemingly without the same impact, so it made sense to use my dev drive to host the code
@drupalthoughts I think you could probably set up the new "dev drive", which seems to be intended to solve the NTFS-many-small-files problem, and then enable mutagen, and I'll bet it would speed up really nicely. But so much added complexity for so little value IMO.
This week's #DDEV Live Contributor Training is on @Xdebug , everybody's favorite - Join us at 10am US ET, 4pm CET, we'll be trying out a new Meetup group for scheduling it this time, join us at https://www.meetup.com/ddev-events/events/301101460/ - please let me know how that goes.
Interesting tidbit from the #DrupalCon Portland 2024 module development workshop that I taught: of the 21 students who were there at the beginning of class, almost half of them used remote IDEs almost exclusively!
WordPress has been proudly rolling out their new "Studio" local development environment, WASM-based, etc. It's slick, but so very limited. URLs are "localhost", each with separate port, no router, no https, Sqlite only. If you need to do more than the most basic, #DDEV wins!
The one cool thing about Studio is that your local can have automatic temporary hosting on wordpress.com so it's a great sharing experience.
Did you see the @drupal Local Development Survey this year? The #DDEV usage among responders has gone from 42% a year ago to 60% now. Thanks to the great folks that do this important survey! https://www.ironstar.io/devsurvey24/