WSL 1 was an ok attempt but yea, it had a lot of rough edges. From my experience...

bostonsre on April 22, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows...

WSL 1 was an ok attempt but yea, it had a lot of rough edges. From my experience WSL 2 is a bunch better and I definitely like it better than when I used cygwin (but that was 10 or so years ago). Cygwin is an ok shell, but being able to yum install stuff and run linux programs on wsl 2 has been awesome.

jcelerier on April 22, 2021 [–]

But msys2 does exactly the same without a VM