dullbananas (Joseph Silva)@lemmy.ca to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 days 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-squaremessage-square71fedilinkarrow-up1108
arrow-up1108message-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)@lemmy.ca to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 days agomessage-square71fedilink
minus-squareCris@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·13 days 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 meekah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·13 days agoas far as I understand it’s more like a VM. But yeah it’s quite literally the opposite of what OP suggested.
minus-squareOnomatopoeia@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-213 days agoYea, it’s an API, just like POSIX was decades ago. (Though more advanced, it’s been decades after all). .
minus-squarebw42@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·13 days 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.