[GTALUG] Any experience with "Linux on Windows"?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 09:19:47PM -0500, James Knott via talk wrote:
> On 2020-01-14 07:53 PM, Paul King via talk wrote:
> > It begs the question also as to how different are these distros from Cygwin? Sounds like these are just different attempts to duplicate what Cygwin is doing. BTW, Cygwin itself is not offered at the Microsoft store.
> 
> I believe the current version is a full kernel install.

You get to choose.  WsL1 is emulated kernel, WsL2 is actual kernel with
some advantages and some disadvantages.

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Len Sorensen