New to Cursor Steps to Initialize or Prepare

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Hello. I’m new to Cursor. Brand new. I’m running on Win 11 with Linux subsystem, docker, git and github, etc.

I’m working on my first program. It leads me to this question. Is there something I need to do to properly initialize or setup my Cursor development environment? Why am I asking this?

It is CONSTANTLY having to waste and then retry attempts due to silly things like: using unix commands on my Windows machine. It will say something like “sorry, I forgot. Let me use the Windows commands” and then within TWO subsequent prompts…it will do the same things again! It does this a LOT actually.

Plus, Cursor keeps freezing on me so badly that I have to use the task manager to shut it down and then start over. man, it struggles in THOSE moments..

Thoughts?

Thank you! I appreciate you!

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Consider to only work on Linux. There is a lot of overhead with using the WSL environment. Use SSH for directly working in your Linux subsystem with the Windows 11-installed Cursor editor. Another thing - since I moved my complete codebase to a full Linux server and only work per SSH I don’t have any freezes of Cursor anymore. Maybe you have an older desktop computer somewhere you can install Linux on. Or treat yourself to a cloud server.