Changes

In May 2019, Windows Subsystem for Linux 2/WSL 2 was announced, introducing important changes such as a real Linux kernel, through a subset of Hyper-V features. WSL 2 differs from [[Compatibility_layer|WSL 1]] in that WSL 2 runs inside a managed virtual machine that implements the full Linux kernel(similar to [[Android_emulators#Emulators|Windows Subsystem for Android/WSA]]). As a result, WSL 2 is compatible with more Linux binaries than WSL 1, as not all syscalls were implemented in WSL 1. There are even feature requests such as [https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/7747 Gamepad support].