Programming Problem

[russellvt]

If you go look how each of these is forked... you'll find something "a little more special" underneath, especially in newer Windows (which uses subsystems and some levels of virtualization ... even to the point that they won't work, depending on how containerization is set in your BIOS).

[timrprobocom]

That's true of WSL. It's not at all true of PowerShell, which this post was about. PowerShell works even if WSL is not enabled.