Comment by troelsSteegin
5 days ago
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a feature of Windows that allows you to run a Linux environment on your Windows machine, without the need for a separate virtual machine or dual booting -- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about
WSL is a VM, along with all the overhead and inefficiencies that come with it.
Actually like containers, however different WSL distributions (already in WSL2) share the same virtualized kernel, which is particularly prepared to interactact with the host Windows.