alt Hacker NewsWSL was a traditional subsystem in the Windows NT tradition, it just never worked properly.
WSL2 runs real Linux in a virtual machine.
WSL was a traditional subsystem in the Windows NT tradition, it just never worked properly.
WSL2 runs real Linux in a virtual machine.
Actually no, that is what many without Windows background think.
WSL 1.0 was based on Drawbridge research project of library OSes, also used to port SQL Server into Linux.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46110904