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Arch Linux Officially Arrives on Windows Subsystem for Linux (linuxiac.com)
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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (5 children)

The name of that thing is so confusing. It's an alternative to wine, right?

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Nope, it uses the MS hypervisor to run a VM of Linux with a deep filesystem and networking integration

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago*

    Maybe you mean the opposite to wine? The 1st WSL (called V1) was a sort of simulation of the Linux terminal, but wasn’t too compatible. The current version (V2) is a full virtual machine that kind of shares the network and file system automatically, so it can run basically any Linux command line tool.

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