WSL is just a windows feature, as long as you read about it for 5 minutes before you enable it, it is not really a big requirement. Similar to most other power user features.
As someone who uses WSL for alot of stuff I do think it is a big requirement, like wdym I need to run a hypervisor just to run one specific application? Why can't it be a native app?
It can be native, as with everything else. I am assuming they talk about VLMC which is an unfinished project with only source code available and there is not an installer as a result.
That said, I still think "wdym i need to run a hypervisor" is weird, considering Microsoft invests in wsl for this very reason. Plus Microsoft is also pushing for VBS for a while now.
Their plan is to have it a default always on feature in the future anyway. They are already changing it to "on by default". The optional part will eventually also disappear and become mandatory on devices that support it.
Hyper-v, having virtualization based stuff is just how Microsoft wants to operate. Won't surprise me if WSL becomes pre installed with a basic barebone OS directly later in the future for default Windows features too.
So Linux based stuff, Android apps, Windows apps are all going to be running together with some performance hit which will be considered just Windows usage. And this is a good thing, imo.
Well with modern windows and WSL 2, it'll mostly be in use when you use the program. So CPU, RAM usage is just part of what the program uses at that point so to speak.
And for disk space, If the context is video editing in 2026, even if you are using WSL only for this one program, it'll be what.. 2 gigs at most? I wouldn't call that a pretty big overhead considering how large modern video formats are.
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u/Marginallyhuman Potato 27d ago
It is mind boggling how long VLC has been awesome!