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Windows Subsystem for Linux v1, based on the idea of implementing Linux syscalls on top of ntoskrnl.exe, was cool as an idea. It also turned out to be awful in practice and barely worked for anything slightly off the beaten path. I have no idea why people eulogize it so fondly

this is why i really liked it, and why i paid so much attention to the negative result i think solaris hit something similar?

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there was at least one (i suspect more) talks about how immensely painful the attempt to make them compatible is