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Re:Black Lotus Labs uncovers Linux executables deployed as s... by wongarsu on Friday September 17, 2021 @09:12AM (#28565056)
When installing WSL you can still choose if you want to use WLS 1 or WSL 2, and you can switch between them. If you keep your files not in the WSL filesystem, WSL 1 is still the recommended choice because of the lower overhead for file access.

Plus WLS 1 is marginally easier to install because you don't have to enable Hyper-V

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Re:Black Lotus Labs uncovers Linux executables deployed as s... by geitir on Friday September 17, 2021 @11:28AM (#28566607)
You also don't get "vmmem" process that eats memory and doesn't give it back
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Re:Black Lotus Labs uncovers Linux executables deployed as s... by deelowe on Friday September 17, 2021 @10:38AM (#28565986)
I recently updated my visual studio code development environment and it depends on WSL 2 now. It seems to be that this is the direction MS is heading.
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