Ah, I see. WSL is a Windows feature called “Windows Subsystem for Linux”. It integrates and allows the use of full Linux distributions inside Windows. Yes, one of the reasons the hell froze, BTW. There are select distributions supported and integrated, such as Ubuntu, and now CachyOS too. That’s why its posted in Linux community.

I never looked deep into it in detail. It’s not a virtual machine. I imagine its something like WINE maybe, but maybe deeper integrated as Microsoft does not need to reverse engineer Linux and all components. I don’t know if this is actually true. You can read more about WSL here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux