Note
Acquia will end support for BLT on December 31, 2024. For more information on how to replace your BLT implementation with updated functionality, see You don’t need BLT on Acquia Cloud.
The information on this page describes both how to use BLT with Windows 10, and it’s known issues.
Editing files in WSL and Windows
By default, when you start WSL the current directory is /home/your_user.
Do not create files in this directory that you also want to edit on Windows.
Although these files are accessible from Windows, it’s dangerous to edit
them.
Instead, change directory to your Windows user’s home directory, with a
command similar to the following:
cd /mnt/c/Users/John
Known issues
Due to the WSL being in beta, it is expected that some features may contain bugs or be incomplete.
These are the currently known issues which you may encounter:
Only portions of procfs are implemented, and there is limited inotify support.
This will impact things like Gulp where you commonly want to actively ‘watch’ for filesystem changes. In that particular instance you can use gulp-watch which polls periodically instead.
Network enumeration is not supported.
This will impact networking functions commonly required by popular front-end packages and utilities (for example, Browsersync). There are workarounds discussed in the GitHub issue.
Permissions on
/dev/ttyare sometimes incorrect.
This can prevent ssh connectivity keyboard input cannot be read (required when entering a passphrase). The GitHub issue includes discussions regarding a workaround.