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by zombot 480 days ago
WSL is not Linux, despite whatever Microsoft says.
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p_ing 480 days ago
WSL is Linux -- it's an automatically managed VM with some special sauce for connectivity between the parent partition and guest.
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anonymfus 480 days ago
WSL2 is what you describe, WSL1 is not.
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wheybags 480 days ago
WSL2 is what people use now though. Saying "WSL is not linux" (because wsl1 isn't) is pedantically analogous to saying "mac os is not a unix based os" (because mac os 9 and under isn't)
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p_ing 480 days ago
Of course, why would we discuss WSLv1 in 2025? If we discuss "Windows" today, it's unlikely we mean Windows 2000.
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