dullbananas (Joseph Silva) to LinuxEnglish • 1 month agoMark my words: Windows will become a Linux distro that includes a good compatibility layer that people will take advantage of in other distros, and this will mark the year of the GNU + Linux desktopmessage-square82fedilinkarrow-up1115arrow-down146
arrow-up169arrow-down1message-squareMark my words: Windows will become a Linux distro that includes a good compatibility layer that people will take advantage of in other distros, and this will mark the year of the GNU + Linux desktopdullbananas (Joseph Silva) to LinuxEnglish • 1 month agomessage-square82fedilink
minus-squareCrislinkEnglish9•1 month agoIsn’t that kinda the opposite? I thought WSL was just the ability to just run linux cli stuff on a machine running windows
minus-squaresilly goose meekahlinkEnglish7•1 month agoas far as I understand it’s more like a VM. But yeah it’s quite literally the opposite of what OP suggested.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-21 month agoYea, it’s an API, just like POSIX was decades ago. (Though more advanced, it’s been decades after all). .
minus-square@bw42linkEnglish3•1 month agoWSL version 1 is an API translation. WSL 2 runs Linux in a vm.
Isn’t that kinda the opposite? I thought WSL was just the ability to just run linux cli stuff on a machine running windows
as far as I understand it’s more like a VM. But yeah it’s quite literally the opposite of what OP suggested.
Yea, it’s an API, just like POSIX was decades ago. (Though more advanced, it’s been decades after all). .
WSL version 1 is an API translation. WSL 2 runs Linux in a vm.