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0 pointsdragonwriter6y ago0 comments

> I agree that WSL1 was a fascinating project. It’s too bad all that work has gone to waste.

Has it? WSL1 and WSL2 seem to be parallel alternatives, the latter isn't replacing the former now, and it's not clear that it is intended to.

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billziss6y ago

Perhaps you are right, but to me this feels more like Microsoft hedging their bets, rather than a genuine interest in having two parallel products doing effectively the same thing (from a user perspective).

I asked the same question on their GitHub issues: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4022

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0 pointsdragonwriter6y ago0 comments

> I agree that WSL1 was a fascinating project. It’s too bad all that work has gone to waste.

Has it? WSL1 and WSL2 seem to be parallel alternatives, the latter isn't replacing the former now, and it's not clear that it is intended to.

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billziss6y ago

I asked the same question on their GitHub issues: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4022

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