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Re:WSL Getting GUI Support by manigandham on Saturday September 26, 2020 @09:12PM (#24603423)
WSL2 is a VM. It’s running a real distro in Hyper-V with some integrations for the file system and docker to be shared across.
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Re:WSL Getting GUI Support by 20thCB on Saturday September 26, 2020 @09:31PM (#24603499)
True. It's unfortunate that most people don't seem to realize this, based on WSL1. MS really haven't marketed WSL2 that well.
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