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Originally Posted by Quoth
I used to use the older MS version of that when it was more UNIX flavoured. It seems to have poor compatibility compared to a real version. A complete distro of your choice in a VM is better. Dual boot better still, but awkward. I used dual boot from 1998 till January 2017.
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As DiapDealer pointed out WSL2 is "real" Linux. It runs in a hypervisor but it has the nice benefit of already being integrated with your system so you don't have to fiddle with shared folders and the like.
The old Windows Services for Unix and the like were more for MS to check a box for government contracts than being something actually functional. WSL is something they actually want people to use so it actually works.