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

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So it's like Wine but worse.

And for Linux instead of Windows.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

It's more like QEMU actually.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.