> WLS1 is basically just another subsystem that provides a linux-compatible API to the Windows kernel WSL1 is not an NT subsystem, either. WSU (the POSIX subsy

> WLS1 is basically just another subsystem that provides a linux-compatible API to the Windows kernel WSL1 is not an NT subsystem, either. WSU (the POSIX subsystem) was an actual NT subsystem, but with WSL, they abandoned this concept and went with a different design for performance reasons. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25249262 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25249262