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What is stopping Windows from being a subsystem for Linux, like WSL?
WSL1 was just a wrapper for syscalls. WSL2 is more of a virtual machine with tight integration into the host (binfmt allowing you to call Windows binaries, filesystem integration...).
An integration ...
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What is stopping Windows from being a subsystem for Linux, like WSL?
Obvious answer: because Microsoft haven't built that. Without Microsoft, nobody can legally modify MS Windows.
Running Windows that way would almost certainly require a customised kernel and Windows ...
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What is stopping Windows from being a subsystem for Linux, like WSL?
The overlap between
People who want "Windows being a subsystem for Linux, like WSL".
and
People who have full access to closed source Windows (Microsoft developers), and could do it.
is ...
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What is stopping Windows from being a subsystem for Linux, like WSL?
There have been Windows emulators like wine for running Windows programs in the Linux environment. Also full virtual machine environments like Virtualbox are available.
These aren't exact ...
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Sending SSH command from Windows shortcut
plink.exe, which is shipped with PuTTY is better suited for this. You can either use it for every single command you want to run, or you put the commands as a script on the server and run the script ...
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Ubuntu only allows FAT32 and not NTFS
Several but not all computers can boot from an NTFS partition in UEFI mode. In other words, the Windows installer, that you created I think similar to this method on a USB drive, should work in ...
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