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Long before WSL there was coLinux. Back when I still dual-booted (i.e. around 2010) I used it extensively to access my Linux filesystems from within Windows, including assembling the mdadm RAID5, which only had a minimal partition. It booted in around 10s, much faster than a full VM and had the filesystems available via SMB-share almost as soon as Windows 7 was done lagging after login.
There was cygwin also. Thought not necessarily comparable to wsl
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Never messed with #WSL, does it give you the capability run a full-on WM the way we could with #cygwin? I used to use it to run #enlightenment on my #Windows computer at work.
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