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Re:Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video] by chrisper on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @03:36PM (#13699656)
It's less overhead and better integrated into the system as a whole. After all a VM is still a separate entity in its own environment. WSL is jumping over the fence and runs Linux stuff in a Windows environment.

Think of it the other way. Why would you use wine if you could just run Windows in a VM? :)

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Re:Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video] by kazinator on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @11:05PM (#13702930)
Why someone might use Wine is that it's free software. That's about it.
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Re:Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video] by eriknstr on Thursday February 23, 2017 @01:53AM (#13712152)
I think the point that parent commenter tried to make is actually that one might use Wine instead of VM because Wine has less overhead.
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Re:Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video] by rasz_pl on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @12:45AM (#13703329)
> less overhead

is it really? last time I read tests WSL was slower than VMs

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