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Arch Linux Officially Arrives on Windows Subsystem for Linux (linuxiac.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 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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[–] Olap@lemmy.world 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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[–] x00z@lemmy.world -4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

So it's like Wine but worse.

And for Linux instead of Windows.

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[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 6 points 2 years ago

It's more like QEMU actually.

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[–] balder1993@programming.dev 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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[–] kogasa@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

It's a Windows Subsystem that is responsible For (Running) Linux. Yes, everyone thinks it should have been called Linux Subsystem for Windows.

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