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by joshuaissac 1225 days ago
> WLS1 is basically just another subsystem that provides a linux-compatible API to the Windows kernel

WSL1 is not an NT subsystem, either. WSU (the POSIX subsystem) was an actual NT subsystem, but with WSL, they abandoned this concept and went with a different design for performance reasons.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25249262