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WSL2 was announced at Microsoft Build 2019. WSL provides an interface to mount drives within WSL. Linux applications run within the Linux distribution which provides the application's dependencies and package management in a container-like environment. The WSL1 interface translates Linux system calls from the binaries into Windows system calls and then executes them at native speed. WSL1 executes unmodified Linux ELF64 binaries by operating a Linux kernel interface on top of the Windows kernel in Windows 10. WSL1 provides a Linux-compatible kernel interface developed by Microsoft that allows a user to choose a Linux distribution to install from the Microsoft Store.

No re-compilation or 'porting' of applications is required. WSL1 is a compatibility layer for running Linux binary executables (ELF) natively on Windows 10. Windows Subsystem for Linux ( WSL) allows users to run a Linux terminal environment, install packages from the Ubuntu archive, and run Linux applications and workflows on Windows 10.