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Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source by rkagerer on Monday May 19, 2025 @01:31PM (#44032346)
I stopped using VMware Workstation when WSL2 broke it

Is it still broken?

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Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source by petronio on Monday May 19, 2025 @04:12PM (#44034289)
Nope, VMWare added the capability to work as a sort of nested hypervisor atop Hyper-V (which WSL2 and newer Windows security features depend on).

That being said, there is a performance impact.

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