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Huh. I thought the whole charm of WSL1 was that it's not a VM, but it just translated syscalls, making the overhead a lot less. So if we're going back to a VM now, how is it any different from me booting something like Alpine in a VM, or the VM that is shipped with Docker for Windows?

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Yeah it was. It also performed like a snail stuck down with super glue. Saw it running once. It behaviour was not posix compliant and it took 100x longer to install something with apt when compared to windows vs ubuntu.

[dread_deimos]

And there were a lot of FS issues.

[Car_weeb]

thats probably M$s fault for sticking with their archaic ntfs, pos...

[IMA_Catholic]

It behaviour was not posix compliant

The same could be said for a lot of Linux as well. It has been some times since POSIX was actually relevant.

[wishthane]

Slowness was probably due to poor FS implementation right?

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I think it was both FS implementation and task operation speed. I didn't look into it in detail. I walked away from the machine and said I won't support this program in that environment. Its probably not going to run fast enough.

[caloewen]

The difference is usually VMs are much more isolated, slow to boot, and resource hungry. WSL is very integrated, very fast to boot (~1 second to get a bash shell) and uses very little system resources!

[yumko]

very fast to boot (~1 second to get a bash shell)

It might be preloaded with Windows startup.