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Re:WSL3 Performance is about 5-60% faster than WSL2 dependin... by Randomno on Saturday October 10, 2026 @06:32AM (#50031492)
Is it accurate to call this WSL3? WSL 2 was released in 2019, but WSL 2.0.0 was released in 2023 https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/releases/tag/2.0.0
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Re:WSL3 Performance is about 5-60% faster than WSL2 dependin... by armcat on Saturday October 10, 2026 @07:50AM (#50031974)
No I think it's more accurate to call it WSL Containers, or WSLc, but the release is indeed WSL 3.0.*.
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Re:WSL3 Performance is about 5-60% faster than WSL2 dependin... by nrr on Saturday October 10, 2026 @09:57AM (#50033054)
It happens to be the major version reported by `wsl --version` on my system.

    NRR-WT1; wsl --version
    WSL version: 3.0.1.0
    Kernel version: 6.18.40.1-1
    WSLg version: 1.0.79
    MSRDC version: 1.2.7214
    Direct3D version: 1.611.1-81528511
    DXCore version: 10.0.26100.1-240331-1435.ge-release
    Windows version: 10.0.26300.9457
    NRR-WT1;
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