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		ActorNightly 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source WSL2 can forward USB devices https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/connect-usb I regularly run ADB through WSL2 using this.

201984 5 months ago [–]

That doesn't work for mass storage devices without a custom kernel, and that's just too much hassle to bother with.

https://askubuntu.com/a/1533361

ActorNightly 4 months ago | [–]

There are always going to be niche cases. In general USB storage devices are slow to transfer data anyways, so you are better off in copying the files directly from windows mounted location.

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