WSL, or Windows Subsystem for Linux, was, in my opinion, a game changer for developers, in order to run GNU/Linux utilities on Windows 10. In 2019, Microsoft released a new version of WSL (in insiders builds): WSL2. WSL2 changed a lot of things: instead of emulating Linux system calls, WSL2 proposes a real Linux kernel in a light and very optimized virtual machine running on hyper-V. This enables great file system performance (at least, better than first version of WSL), as well as full syste...
