[Sangeppato]

It's a headless VM that runs on Hyper-V

[AstralStorm]

Once Microsoft finishes the work on DXGI for Linux, it won't even have to be headless.

It's also very paravirtualized, which is why HyperV enlightenments are required for WSL2 guest.

[withinboredom]

That's a gross over-generalization: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/wsl-2-where-is-it-and-w....

[Sangeppato]

Sure, it has some nice integrations, but I don't see how this article is in contradiction with what I've said. (To be clear, I didn't mean it as a critique, I like Hyper-V)