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In benchmarks, WSL 1's performance is often near native Linux Ubuntu, Debian, Intel Clear Linux or other Linux distributions. I/O is in some tests a bottleneck for WSL. [46] [47] [48] The redesigned WSL 2 backend is claimed by Microsoft to offer twenty-fold increases in speed on certain operations compared to that of WSL 1. [6]
Some distributions like Debian tend to separate tools into different packages – usually stable release, development release, documentation and debug. Also counting the source package number varies. For debian and rpm based entries it is just the base to produce binary packages, so the total number of packages is the number of binary packages.
In the extreme case - user can use a computer without a GUI and even browse the internet in a terminal, without images, in Lynx, on a weak computer. A light-weight Linux distribution a Linux distribution that uses lower memory and processor-speed requirements than a more "feature-rich" Linux distribution.
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, Gentoo/FreeBSD ... Android, Ubuntu, CentOS, webOS, Fire OS, ... Yes with WSL: No No No No No Yes No No No
Debian, Ubuntu and many others use Debian-Installer. The process of constantly switching between distributions is often referred to as "distro hopping". [46] [47] Virtual machine software such as VirtualBox and VMware Workstation virtualize hardware allowing users to test live media on a virtual machine without installing to the real system.
Azure Linux is being developed by the Linux Systems Group at Microsoft for its edge network services and as part of its cloud infrastructure. [5] The company uses it as the base Linux for containers in the Azure Stack HCI implementation of Azure Kubernetes Service. [4]
The Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) uses Debian Stable as the software source base rather than Ubuntu. [46] LMDE was originally based directly on Debian's Testing branch , but is designed to provide the same functionality and look and feel as the Ubuntu-based editions . [ 47 ]
The article details mostly about the WSL 1 --> WSL 2 switch. Instead, it should talk about WSL in general. Beside some advantages of WSL2, it has also huge disadvantages (like the decrease of the disk bandwidth below about 1/20, or setting up hard limits to RAM usage). The article does not even want to mention them.