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Re:More developers use Linux than Mac, according to 2022 Sta... by nodja on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @03:36PM (#34165608)
Broadly speaking WSL1 is linux implemented in the windows kernel, think reverse wine. WSL2 is linux running on a thin VM with several bridge layers that can access windows resources (networking, files, GPU, etc.)
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Re:More developers use Linux than Mac, according to 2022 Sta... by dm319 on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @04:08PM (#34165986)
Isn't WSL1 everything _but_ linux? I.e. more like gnu/WinNT.
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Re:More developers use Linux than Mac, according to 2022 Sta... by schappim on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @04:19PM (#34166108)
Thanks for the explanation! I always knew that WSL1 was implemented on the Windows kernel and thought it was quite ambitious - props to them! I didn't know they moved to the VM model for WSL2.
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