From aa2b4a688b5f58bfa2818940c802659c2c1a1800 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt Snell Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2021 21:21:21 -0500 Subject: [docs] Add IO Warning to WSL section of Getting Started (#12384) * Add IO Warning to WSL section of Getting Started * FauxPark suggestion (thanks!) Co-authored-by: Ryan Co-authored-by: Ryan --- docs/newbs_getting_started.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs/newbs_getting_started.md') diff --git a/docs/newbs_getting_started.md b/docs/newbs_getting_started.md index 3cb63e5692..7af9579dfb 100644 --- a/docs/newbs_getting_started.md +++ b/docs/newbs_getting_started.md @@ -70,6 +70,8 @@ Install the QMK CLI by running: ### ** Linux/WSL ** +?> **Note for WSL users**: By default, the installation process will clone the QMK repository into your WSL home directory, but if you have cloned manually, ensure that it is located inside the WSL instance instead of the Windows filesystem (ie. not in `/mnt`), as accessing it is currently [extremely slow](https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197). + #### Prerequisites You will need to install Git and Python. It's very likely that you already have both, but if not, one of the following commands should install them: -- cgit v1.2.3