XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:59:13 -0500, Paul wrote:   
      
   > During WSL1, there was no WSLg. There is a graphics stack to be   
   > completed, before WSLg can come out. For the WSL1, we were using a   
   > third party X server (XMing) so that three days after WSL1 showed   
   > up, we were running Linux Firefox on the screen. Even though WSL1   
   > was intended to be "bash", a terminal session with a bash shell.   
      
   From what I gather, Windows NT was originally designed with a system for   
   running multiple “personalities” on top of the common core kernel. This   
   was used for the original POSIX implementation (which has been described   
   as an “exercise in malicious compliance”), for example.   
      
   Yet for some reason that was not used for WSL1. It appears that, over the   
   years, that “personality” system has bit-rotted away into non-   
   functionality. So the WSL1 team had to create an entirely new mechanism   
   for emulating a Linux kernel.   
      
   Which still didn’t work right anyway, and had to be abandoned in favour of   
   WSL2, which made use of an actual Linux kernel.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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