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Re:Initial Impressions of WSL 2 by k__ on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @09:13AM (#23090525)
They didn't say that something changed.

But I'm intrigued, what did change?

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Re:Initial Impressions of WSL 2 by exdsq on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @10:24AM (#23091279)
WSL2 uses a VM while WSL1 uses a Linux like interface over a system-call DLL.
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Re:Initial Impressions of WSL 2 by k__ on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @11:50AM (#23092405)
WSL2 sounds like a step back.
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Re:Initial Impressions of WSL 2 by zlynx on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @12:41PM (#23093154)
Their other choice was to make Windows file IO actually fast.

That just wasn't going to happen.

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Re:Initial Impressions of WSL 2 by mehrdadn on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @10:11AM (#23091125)
I/O performance characteristics changed, your ability to share the same filesystem for both OSes changed, etc.
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