Unable to fetch GPU information in WSL windows

[Chetan177]

I have an application which heavily really on hardware, The piece of code perfectly run fine on windows and macos, but when I try to run the application on WSL Windows the GPU information is empty.

Example:

package main

import (
	"fmt"

	"github.com/jaypipes/ghw"
)

func main() {
	gpu, err := ghw.GPU()
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Printf("Error getting GPU info: %v", err)
	}

	fmt.Printf("%v\n", gpu)

	for _, card := range gpu.GraphicsCards {
		fmt.Printf(" %v\n", card)
	}
}

Output when I run it inside wsl:

Output in normal windows:

[jaypipes]

Hi @Chetan177 hope you are doing well! You have run into the classic "Windows Subsystem for Linux isn't actually Linux and isn't Windows" problem. :)

This is why I often refer to WSL as "World's Shoddiest Linux" (though I often use a different spelling of "Shoddiest" ;)

I'm not sure there's much I will be able to do to "fix" this problem, since it really has to do with various expected Linux sysfs mounts not existing in WSL, and there's really not much I can do about that. I'm all open to any ideas you might have, though!