[emulio]

> it was too complex to maintain and Microsoft decided to take the easy road.

This is a common confusion. WSL1 is not deprecated, and both WSL1 and WSL2 continue to be developed and supported in parallel by Microsoft.

This is example of bad Microsoft marketing. Maybe they should have added a postfixes instead of numbers: "WSL-native" "WSL-VM" or something like that

[lproven]

> both WSL1 and WSL2 continue to be developed

I have had a 'Softie deny, in person to my face at the Ubuntu Summit, that any further development would occur on WSL1, in 2022.

So I have to call [[citation needed]] on that.