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[โ€“] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Heh, sorry. "WSL" is the "Windows Subsystem for Linux," which (in the opposite of the way it sounds like it should work) runs Linux on Windows, pretty close to baremetal. So the "LSW" would be the "Linux Subsystem for Windows," so to speak; a hypothetical way to run Windows on a Linux machine.