Windows Subsystem for Linux Is Officially Released

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Post by apcragg » Wed, Nov 23, 2022, 5:16 PM UTC

Windows Subsystem for Linux Is Officially Released
devblogs.microsoft.com

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux Is Officially Released

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Post by photoGrant » Wed, Nov 23, 2022, 5:32 PM UTC

What I couldn't tell, was which version of WSL the Store version gives you! I think it's heavily hinted that it's WSL2, but if it's in black and white, I'll be damned!

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux Is Officially Released

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Post by orf » Wed, Nov 23, 2022, 5:59 PM UTC

I’d be interested in reading a retrospective of WSL1. The approach they took seemed really interesting, but I guess it didn’t pan out as they expected as they fell back to “running Linux in a VM” with WSL2 instead of syscall emulation

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux Is Officially Released

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Post by vsskanth » Wed, Nov 23, 2022, 7:05 PM UTC

Is it now available for Windows 10 server? I think so far you could only use WSL1

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux Is Officially Released

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Post by maxnoe » Wed, Nov 23, 2022, 7:14 PM UTC

photoGrant wrote: post #2

What I couldn't tell, was which version of WSL the Store version gives you! I think it's heavily hinted that it's WSL2, but if it's in black and white, I'll be damned!

The link has a section on that:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/the-windows-subsy...

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux Is Officially Released

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Post by WorldMaker » Wed, Nov 23, 2022, 7:31 PM UTC

maxnoe wrote: post #5

photoGrant wrote: post #2

What I couldn't tell, was which version of WSL the Store version gives you! I think it's heavily hinted that it's WSL2, but if it's in black and white, I'll be damned!

The link has a section on that: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/the-windows-subsy...

TL;DR: WSL in the store is always WSL2. (WSL1 needs an Optional Windows Feature and cannot be Store installed.)

Also, that last paragraph does somewhat read like the death knell of WSL1 in that it implies all future features will be Store delivered (and thus WSL2).

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux Is Officially Released

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Post by naikrovek » Wed, Nov 23, 2022, 9:48 PM UTC

WorldMaker wrote: post #6

maxnoe wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The link has a section on that: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/the-windows-subsy...

TL;DR: WSL in the store is always WSL2. (WSL1 needs an Optional Windows Feature and cannot be Store installed.) Also, that last paragraph does somewhat read like the death knell of WSL1 in that it implies all future features will be Store delivered (and thus WSL2).

New features haven't been added to WSL 1 for some time, but because of backwards compatibility guarantees, I would expect to see WSL 1 exist for many years.