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Has anyone tried WSL on Windows ARM? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I know... I know.

But just out of curiosity about how it works. I remember back in some dark days of still dual booting getting curious about wsl1 and being fairly impressed. At the time I had a heavy gaming laptop and a Surface 3 I would take to class to keep my STEM student physic rather than going body builder moving an alienware around.

Having wsl was a neat tool to get started on some homework assignments before I got home to the real computer. Given that Windows ARM has been kind of a let down (or perhaps Apple just set too high a bar) I am curious about how this niche has turned out.

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[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

even the old 'xp mode' for win7 was just a vm.

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 1 points 3 days ago

That’s interesting. I haven’t really used Windows since the XP days so I didn’t realize there was already some VM stuff going on to begin with.