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Understanding Surrogate Pairs: Why Some Windows Fi...
WSL is Linux -- it's an automatically managed VM with some special sauce for connectivity between the parent partition and guest.
anonymfus
10 months ago
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WSL2 is what you describe, WSL1 is not.
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WSL2 is what people use now though. Saying "WSL is not linux" (because wsl1 isn't) is pedantically analogous to saying "mac os is not a unix based os" (because mac os 9 and under isn't)
p_ing
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Of course, why would we discuss WSLv1 in 2025? If we discuss "Windows" today, it's unlikely we mean Windows 2000.
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