I haven’t played with it much but I think it’s moreso to enable developers to use the Linux commands they’re familiar with even on Windows machines, sort of like a Linux flavored CMD Prompt.
The Virtual Machines tho can do anything a Linux can do, but the filesystem remains separate.
You can access the file systems, both read and write.
In linux they are mounted under /mnt/c etc (at least in debian). And from Windows you can access the linux mounts via a smb share.
And it is basically a complete linux installation running in a virtualisation container except X11. You can install whatever you want and run it. For the most part it is seamlessly forwarded to your host system as well, so if you run a webserver in WSL you can access it through localhost.
I haven’t played with it much but I think it’s moreso to enable developers to use the Linux commands they’re familiar with even on Windows machines, sort of like a Linux flavored CMD Prompt.
The Virtual Machines tho can do anything a Linux can do, but the filesystem remains separate.
You can access the file systems, both read and write.
In linux they are mounted under
/mnt/cetc (at least in debian). And from Windows you can access the linux mounts via a smb share.And it is basically a complete linux installation running in a virtualisation container except X11. You can install whatever you want and run it. For the most part it is seamlessly forwarded to your host system as well, so if you run a webserver in WSL you can access it through localhost.