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    Windows is also effective in removing the bootloader (linux bootloader) (lemmy.world)
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    [–] spacesweedkid27@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    How does the wsl load the OS btw?

    [–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Wsl2? It's a VM. As for wsl1... Not sure, mb smth wine-ish.

    [–] nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

    The way WSL1 worked is actually quite interesting: The NT kernel always had the capability to run multiple subsystems, with Win32 only being one of them and there were subsystems available for OS/2, POSIX and later UNIX. WSL1 was pretty much a revival of that feature. So WSL1 is indeed somewhat like Wine, but making heavy use of some features built into the kernel. So yeah, no real boot process happening.

    (Also it's kinda stupid that the 'S' in WSL2 still stands for 'subsystem', despite not using that feature anymore.)

    [–] lightnegative@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

    I liked the WSL1 approach better. I find it ironic that the Windows kernel lacks so many useful features that it simply wasn't possible to properly implement things like cgroups on top of it, so they just gave up and ran Linux in a VM for WSL2