Re:WSL2 can now mount Linux ext4 disks directly
by alxlaz on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @07:38AM
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Neither :-). WSL2 runs a full-blown machine but the startup process is considerably different from that of a real machine with a real Linux installation, so when you "start up" a WSL2 shell, it's spawned in seconds, you're already logged in and so on. It's essentially the WSL1 presentation format but with a different back-end.
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Re:WSL2 can now mount Linux ext4 disks directly
by girvo on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @08:35AM
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Though my Ubuntu VM on Hyper-V with multipass giving the Microsoft Terminal integration started up basically just as fast, to be honest.
But the deeper integration and lighter underlying OS for WSL2 is better, especially for Docker dev container usage with VSCode.