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		thawkins on Nov 20, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Moving from Macbook to Linux Becuase macosx containers run inside a Linux VM, not on the native host OS, same with Windows;

masklinn on Nov 21, 2020 [–]

> Becuase macosx containers run inside a Linux VM, not on the native host OS

My comment was sarcastic.

> same with Windows

Significantly less so as Microsoft themselves provide the virtualisation glue, with a custom kernel and a dedicated / special-cased VM, in the form of WSL2.

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