• 9point6@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I’m aware, though there’s some nice integration stuff that means you can run GUI applications and share the file system

    Interesting fact WSLv1 was actually not a VM and it was the NT kernel speaking POSIX

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      3 days ago

      And this is why the WSL1 filesystem was so damn slow. WSL2 uses a native ext4 filesystem (usually, you can format it to whatever)