This however can cause problems when editing files on WSL. Incorrect line endings By default WebStorm/IntelliJ/P圜harm assume that the files you write should be using the line endings from the OS you’re in. “Filesystem Case-Sensitivity Mismatch” This can be easily fixed by going to “Help” -> “Edit Custom Properties”, and setting =true as described here: One thing to watch out with this setting is that you’re going to get that same warning when you open a project from your windows partition, so setting it to true might not be the optimal option.

raises a warning “External file changes sync may be slow” From what I gathered it’s because WebStorm can’t start the fsnotifier64 on a network drive, which it thinks our Linux is on. This however causes a number of problems listed below

This problem has been described well by a lot of blog posts and bug reports, and everyone suggests to keep your project files on native Linux filesystem, for example /home//projects like I do. Here’s a list of the problems I myself encountered when using WebStorm with WSL2 (the problems are the same in any of their tools - WebStorm, P圜harm and IntelliJ): Example problems If you managed to get here then I’m assuming you also have problems using Jetbrains tools with Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2).

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