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Re:Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settin... by cesarb on Monday January 24, 2022 @07:09AM (#30056654)
> It boils down to which OS you want to be the "second-class citizen" on your machine. With Wine, it's Windows. With WSL, it's Linux.

That equivalence is only valid for WSL1. Since WSL2 runs the real Linux kernel on a VM, the equivalent for it on Linux would be running Windows on a VM.

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Re:Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settin... by rbanffy on Monday January 24, 2022 @07:20AM (#30056760)
> the equivalent for it on Linux would be running Windows on a VM.

Not quite. When Windows is on a VM, you mostly run only Windows-specific software on it. Within the VM, everything works mostly flawlessly. Most platform-neutral software will be running on the Linux side, which makes accessing data from the Linux environment a non-issue.

And don't even get me started on Windows-1252 and CRLF line endings.

WSL2 still has some issues with VPN software and my company doesn't support it on my corporate Windows laptop.

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