For years I thought my only options were dual booting or using a clunky virtual machine. Dual boot meant constant reboots, and VirtualBox ate my RAM. Then I discovered Windows Subsystem for Linux 2, and honestly it changed how I work. Now I run a complete Ubuntu desktop right next to my Windows applications. I can code in a native Linux environment, test web servers, and even fire up Linux-only GU
When you have 5 unrelated questions, should you pack them into one message to the LLM, or send 5 requests simultaneously? Which is faster? Splitting into multiple independent parallel requests is almost always faster. This isn't a gut feeling — it's determined by the underlying inference mechanism of LLMs. Let's walk through the reasoning from first principles. To understand this problem, you firs