That's more comparable to WSL2 than WSL1. WSL1 is a subsystem on the NT kernel, allowing Linux binaries to run natively on Windows itself (not a virtual machin

That's more comparable to WSL2 than WSL1. WSL1 is a subsystem on the NT kernel, allowing Linux binaries to run natively on Windows itself (not a virtual machine). It's the spiritual successor to Interix, that showed up in NT 4.0 and was removed in Windows 8. The flip side is Wine, allowing Windows binaries to run natively on Linux.