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by jiggawatts 1281 days ago
WSL2 is not a virtual machine, it's a subsystem. It's basically the opposite of WINE.

You can run all of your favourite languages nearly identically to Linux on Windows either via Docker or WSL2.

> Windows requires emulation to run aarch64-based containers. Except on Windows for ARM

Making Windows and Linux the only platforms with ongoing support for both ARM and Intel CPUs, unlike MacOS where Intel support will eventually expire.
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SideburnsOfDoom 1281 days ago
Technically, WSL version 2 _is_ a VM based technology:

"WSL 2 ... uses the latest and greatest in virtualization technology run a Linux kernel inside of a lightweight utility virtual machine (VM)."

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/compare-versio...

WSL1 is not a VM design, but that design reached its limits.

A VM doesn't make it bad - I don't do a lot with WSL but I like it a lot. It's not slow or limited.

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