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Comment by MrDrMcCoy

5 days ago

WSL is a VM, along with all the overhead and inefficiencies that come with it.

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riedel  14 hours ago

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.

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