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But Windows already gave up on that (WSL2 is VM-based, with a Microsoft-built Linux kernel); why would Apple go down that road?
by mook 6y ago
But Windows already gave up on that (WSL2 is VM-based, with a Microsoft-built Linux kernel); why would Apple go down that road?
- mschuster91 6y agoMicrosoft gave up on the syscall-emulation approach mostly because of filesystem performance issues - WSL1 uses the host NTFS filesystem for everything whereas WSL2 uses a backing ext4 disk image, which means that as long as one stays in the "Linux world" the performance is way better.