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by pjmlp 2230 days ago
Why would Microsoft want to adopt a less technology interesting kernel stuck in the age of monotliths?

WSL is there to sell Windows laptops to those that would rather buy Macs without any interest in Apple's eco-system, rather using them as pretty UNIX for GNU/Linux work.

They realised the mistake of not giving first class support to the POSIX subsystem and nowadays Linux compatibility is more relevant than POSIX.