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/etc/wsl.conf Avoid adding Windows Path to Linux $PATH
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Right now access to /mnt folders in WSL2 is too slow and by default at launch the entire Windows PATH is added to the Linux $PATH so any Linux binary that scans $PATH will make things unbearably slow. #5159

The best for now is using appendWindowsPath=false and adding folders to the $PATH manually. For example for VSCode you only need: export PATH=$PATH:"/mnt/c/Users/onoma/AppData/Local/Programs/Microsoft VS Code/bin" replacing onoma with your Windows username.

Source: microsoft/WSL#4498 (comment)

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[interop]
appendWindowsPath=false
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