• boonhet@lemm.ee
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    12 hours ago

    VMs are still slow unless you’re talking linux on linux with KVM

    Wubi was great because you got native speed to test Linux with, which was probably better than Windows for at least most versions of Windows.

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      3 hours ago

      There’s WSL now in Windows 11 - a built-in, pretty performant instance of Linux. The recent versions run a proper Linux kernel I believe (the older ones were more of a compatibility layer over Windows APIs). I’m not sure what the limitations of WSL are. But there is already some kind of Linux in Windows. I use it for the odd utility and to avoid having to learn PowerShell.

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        3 hours ago

        There is. Wubi was more about giving 14 year old me the confidence to try out an entirely different os.