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		ComplexSystems 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source Is it a VM? It seems to be much faster than most VMs I've used.

cogman10 8 months ago [–]

Literally built on top of MS's Hyper-V.

IDK how many VMs you've used, but there has been a lot of work specifically with x86 to make VMs nearly as fast as native. If you interact with cloud services everything you do is likely on a VM.

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