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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential by bitwize on Thursday November 19, 2020 @05:40PM (#25155217)
WSL1 is like the "kernel personalities" in other operating systems like the BSDs. WSL2 is more like Linux for Windows, because it is the actual Linux kernel in a VM, hypervised by Windows.
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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential by pjmlp on Friday November 20, 2020 @07:05AM (#25159663)
Kind of, Hyper-V is a type 1 VM, so Windows is also a guest OS.
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