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Re:Microsoft is bringing Android apps to Windows 11 by mook on Thursday June 24, 2021 @08:10PM (#27625560)
Hmm, but WSL2 just runs a VM instead, right? Given that I'd have expected WSA to be a container on the WSL VM, running something similar to Anbox.
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Re:Microsoft is bringing Android apps to Windows 11 by naikrovek on Thursday June 24, 2021 @09:26PM (#27626122)
WSL2 runs in a VM with host OS integration, and I assume this is how the subsystem functionality of the NT kernel is used in WSL2.

WSL1 is the "Linux as a subsystem of Windows" thing I described.

Note that WSL2 is not a complete upgrade from WSL1, and WSL2 does not render WSL1 obsolete. They each have strengths that the other does not.

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