XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 11/19/2025 11:55 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On 20 Nov 2025 02:46:25 GMT, Brock McNuggets wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Nov 19, 2025 at 7:24:00 PM MST, "Lawrence D´Oliveiro" wrote   
   >> <10flu3v$2lsr1$1@dont-email.me>:   
   >>   
   >>> Windows needed WSL (1 and 2) because it lacked a Linux-like   
   >>> environment.   
   >>>   
   >>> macOS is the same. “Unix” is not what matters any more; now it’s   
   >>> very specifically “Linux”.   
   >>   
   >> I do not share your black and white world view.   
   >   
   > Just look at the facts: Microsoft first tried WSL1, to emulate a Linux   
   > “personality” on top of the Windows kernel. They couldn’t make that   
   > work. So they had to bring in an actual full-function Linux kernel in   
   > WSL2.   
   >   
   > If macOS really was “Unix” in any way that mattered, they could have   
   > done the same thing as WSL1: provide a “personality” to emulate the   
   > minor differences (one would assume) between “Unix” and “Linux” on   
   top   
   > of their existing kernel, which is already supposedly “Unix”   
   > (according to you anyway, given it itself seems to say otherwise).   
   >   
   > But Apple couldn’t get that to work either. Or it didn’t even bother   
   > to try. Instead, it went straight to a WSL2-style approach, bringing   
   > in an actual full-function Linux kernel from the get-go.   
   >   
      
   So you've never seen a fast prototype before ???   
      
   The team working on WSL2, happen to be pretty good.   
   Impressive, as Microsoft projects go. Completed   
   faster than Notepad.   
      
   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.   
      
      Paul   
      
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