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by mike_hearn 399 days ago
Right, if you compare against IBM i then everything looks the same :)

NT might have been intended to have a POSIX personality in the very beginnings of the project, but that never happened. People who have tried to make this work over the years have always retreated licking their wounds, including Microsoft themselves. WSL1 tried to use this and failed because NT is too different to UNIX to implement a Linux personality on top, so WSL2 is just a regular VM.