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The new Windows subsystem for Linux architecture: a deep dive - BRK3068
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A Microsoft Build 2019 session in which the WSL team explains the new WSL 2 architecture, which runs a real Linux kernel alongside Windows on a hypervisor. It covers faster file performance, Linux file access from Windows and better application support.
HN points to it as the authoritative source for how WSL2 works and why Microsoft rebuilt it.
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