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		frollogaston 77 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source I'd compare WSL to my older Intel MBP's setup, a VirtualBox VM. Both are subject to the RAM splitting and lacking GPU support, but at least things are simple and predictable on the CPU side, no emulation.

tgma 73 days ago [–]

There's no "emulation" unless you specifically need to run x86 code. If your baseline is VirtualBox x86 on x86, the direct comparison, arm64 virtualized Linux experience on M1, is better than VirtualBox for sure.

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