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Re:Apple apologizes to WordPress, won’t force the free app t... by stephenr on Saturday August 22, 2020 @11:22PM (#24249263)
... So many things wrong with this comparison.

(a). WSL is just a Linux VM. You can do this on any desktop OS. If you're not using WSL, you can even do it with multiple hypervisors at once if you so wish.

(b). macOS isn't, and has never tried to be, "Linux". It's POSIX.

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Re:Apple apologizes to WordPress, won’t force the free app t... by jjeaff on Sunday August 23, 2020 @12:51AM (#24249600)
There's a little more to wsl2 than just a VM. It's lighter and partially integrated. More like a VM running alongside windows instead of on top of windows.
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Re:Apple apologizes to WordPress, won’t force the free app t... by stephenr on Sunday August 23, 2020 @01:25AM (#24249737)
> More like a VM running alongside windows instead of on top of windows.

It's not like that, it literally is that, because to enable WSL2 you end up running Windows itself on top of Hyper-V, and the Linux VM as a parallel VM.

> It's lighter and partially integrated.

I don't know what you think it's "lighter" than - it's a VM running on Hyper-V.

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Re:Apple apologizes to WordPress, won’t force the free app t... by jjeaff on Thursday August 27, 2020 @04:57AM (#24291483)
Lighter in that Hyper-V is lighter than VirtualBox.
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Re:Apple apologizes to WordPress, won’t force the free app t... by stephenr on Thursday August 27, 2020 @05:08AM (#24291549)
Given that with WSL/Hyper-V you'll be running Windows in a VM permanently, and WSL.. whenever it thinks you need it (maybe always too?) while Vbox you can just stop when you wish, it seems weird to refer to one as "lighter".

They're very different approaches with different tradeoffs for each.

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Re:Apple apologizes to WordPress, won’t force the free app t... by shagie on Saturday August 22, 2020 @11:31PM (#24249305)
macOS is UNIX too (Linux isn’t). https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/
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