[anaganisk]

How about this. May be this is a bad idea too. Can we have like WSL3, where highly optimised Linux kernel runs on hypervisor. And Ubuntu/arch share the kernel using containerised approach. And individual apps too can run using the same workflow? That way we have benefits wrt overhead. Something like electron but they all use the same ringtone instead of a new instance. Again it may be a bad idea, just curious of the benefits.

[mook]

I'm having issues parsing your comment, but WSL2 is already a single Linux VM with containers for each "distribution". That's how the /mnt/wsl/ thing works — it's just a mount mapped into your container. Also, all distributions share a network namespace.

[anaganisk]

Oh, cool, I didn’t know that.

[zamadatix]

https://docs.docker.com/desktop/windows/wsl/

[anaganisk]

Oh, I thought each instance of the os has its own VM upto now. Still, I wish it would be more native experience rather than depending on docket desktop, if it makes sense.

[zamadatix]

If you install separate WSL2 images for each app it does. If you go the container route with Docker (or your container orchestrator of choice) naturally they'll be shared.