• xlash123
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      8 months ago

      Really just an English problem. Read it as it is a subsystem by Windows for Linux.

      But yeah, LSW would’ve been more clear. Plus, it’s almost LSD.

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      8 months ago

      It should be Windows’s Subsystem for Linux.

      A better acronym might be Windows’ Linux Subsystem.

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      8 months ago

      WSL 1 is a compatibility layer that lets Linux programs run on the Windows kernel by translating Linux system calls to Windows system calls, so in that sense I understand the name: it’s a Windows subsystem for Linux [compatibility]. It doesn’t use the Linux kernel at all. With WSL 2 they’re using a real Linux kernel in a virtual machine, so there the name doesn’t make much sense anymore.