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Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source by notpushkin on Monday May 19, 2025 @08:43PM (#44036589)
Then they discontinue WSL1 and just do a VM instead because... reasons. I really don’t understand how MSFT works on the inside.
Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source by duskwuff on Monday May 19, 2025 @10:27PM (#44037192)
A big one of those reasons was Docker. Docker was still fairly niche when WSL was released in 2016, but demand for it grew rapidly, and I don't think there was any realistic way they could have made it work on the NT kernel.