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by froggit 1277 days ago
> Wasn't it an implementation of Linux system calls on top of NT?

Windows subsystem for linux has 2 flavors. WSL1 was more of the whole system call on NT thing, kind of. WSL2 is a lightweight hyper-v VM with an MS customized Linux kernel with a bunch of tweaks to do cool shit.