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      Nope, it uses the MS hypervisor to run a VM of Linux with a deep filesystem and networking integration

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        So it’s like Wine but worse.

        And for Linux instead of Windows.

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      Maybe you mean the opposite to wine? The 1st WSL (called V1) was a sort of simulation of the Linux terminal, but wasn’t too compatible. The current version (V2) is a full virtual machine that kind of shares the network and file system automatically, so it can run basically any Linux command line tool.