Re: WSL keeps getting better, and it's because Microsoft is finally?? admitting where developers want to be

Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Sun, 5 Jul 2026 13:55:56 -0000 (UTC), Robert Heller wrote:

> Eg is WSL on MS-Windows like WINE on Linux?

WSL 1 was kind of an analogue of WINE in reverse -- emulating Linux
APIs on top of the Windows kernel.

It never worked very well.

With WSL 2 and 3, there is a full actual Linux kernel running within a
VM under Windows. You can install Ubuntu and I think some other
supported distros. Even GUI apps work, I believe.

WSL 2 didn’t offer good filesystem performance. One of the
improvements in WSL 3 is less Windows code getting in the way between
the Linux kernel and native Linux filesystems.
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