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		ActorNightly on May 19, 2025 \| 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 on May 19, 2025 [–]

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 on May 20, 2025 | [–]

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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