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

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

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[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] balder1993@programming.dev 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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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