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		pionar on Nov 16, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Windows Subsystem For Linux a.k.a. WSL 1.0.0 relea... It's a subsystem _of_ Windows _for_ Linux

icedchai on Nov 16, 2022 [–]

You could also say it's Linux for (meaning: running on) Windows. The naming is very ambiguous.

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