add note about WSL performance and clarify "put it inside WSL"

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### WSL2 performance using /mnt:
When you git clone a repository, put it inside WSL and not outside. To understand more, take a look at this [issue](https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197#issuecomment-604592340)
When you git clone a repository, put it inside WSL and not outside. To understand more, take a look at this [issue](https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197#issuecomment-604592340).
This means, to clone the repo, do the following:
````
wsl (to enter - you guessed it - WSL)
cd ~ (to change to your home directory and enter the "WSL file system". Your WSL might start somewhere in the Windows file system at a location like "/mnt/c/Users/foo")
(maybe create a subfolder if you wish and cd to it)
git clone https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui.git
cd text-generation-webui
./start_linux.sh
````
In this case, you'd want to put your models under
````
/home/foo/text-generation-webui/models
````
If you want to access your WSL file system from windows, you can do so using the path
````
\\wsl.localhost\Ubuntu-22.04\home\foo\text-generation-webui
````
You might even have a little pengui in your Wíndows File Explorer labelled "Linux" under which you can access your
windows files.
**NEVER EVER put your models in the Windows file system (i.e. under /mnt/...) and access them from within WSL. Loading a
simple 10GB model could easily take 30+ minutes!!!**
### Bonus: Port Forwarding