2 ms·

> It boils down to which OS you want to be the "second-class citizen" on your machine. With Wine, it's Windows. With WSL, it's Linux. That equivalence is only

by cesarb 5y ago

> It boils down to which OS you want to be the "second-class citizen" on your machine. With Wine, it's Windows. With WSL, it's Linux. That equivalence is only valid for WSL1. Since WSL2 runs the real Linux kernel on a VM, the equivalent for it on Linux would be running Windows on a VM.

rbanffy 5y ago
> the equivalent for it on Linux would be running Windows on a VM. Not quite. When Windows is on a VM, you mostly run only Windows-specific software on it. Within the VM, everything works mostly flawlessly. Most platform-neutral software will be running on the Linux side, which makes accessing data from the Linux environment a non-issue. And don't even get me started on Windows-1252 and CRLF line endings. WSL2 still has some issues with VPN software and my company doesn't support it on my corporate Windows laptop.