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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Linux@programming.devEnglish · 1 month ago

Arch Linux Officially Arrives on Windows Subsystem for Linux

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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Linux@programming.devEnglish · 1 month ago
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Arch Linux is now officially available on Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2, expanding its reach to Windows users.
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    Nope, it uses the MS hypervisor to run a VM of Linux with a deep filesystem and networking integration

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      So it’s like Wine but worse.

      And for Linux instead of Windows.

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        It’s more like QEMU actually.

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