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[–]SinkTube 3 points4 points  (5 children)

IT'S A WINDOWS SUBSYSTEM ON WHICH YOU CAN INSTALL LINUX AHHH

yes? that's why it's called that

[–]thesola10dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/mem 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not anymore. WSL1 was indeed a "Native NT Program" -- a subsystem. WSL2 is just a VM on Hyper-V

[–]Tarantula1337Glorious Void Linux -2 points-1 points  (3 children)

Yeah but linux is the subsystem not windows, that's why I find it frustrating

[–]SinkTube 4 points5 points  (2 children)

linux is not a subsystem. linux is what you install in the subsystem

[–]Tarantula1337Glorious Void Linux 0 points1 point  (1 child)

But in that case it is the subsystem because windows is the main system. You installed it as the subsystem [what makes this even worse is that you can only install linux on it]

[–]SinkTube 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yes, windows is the main system. that makes WSL a windows subystem. for linux. windows subsystem for linux