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> but I'd rather install a VM

WSL is a proper VM, just managed very efficiently by Hyper-V.

> the filesystem has its (performance) limitations

It's a normal Linux filesystem, there's no difference in performance vs. a full-fledged Linux VM. (which it is anyway)

Are you referring to WSL1?



> > the filesystem has its (performance) limitations

> It's a normal Linux filesystem, there's no difference in performance vs. a full-fledged Linux VM. (which it is anyway)

> Are you referring to WSL1?

WSL2 just exchanged the performance problems with the Linux guest environment's native filesystem for performance problems when the Linux guest accesses Windows' filesystem. Those are still there and they're still atrocious.




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