Despite the container support getting most of the attention, I discovered a measurable performance improvement with WSL3 by accident. Luckily I had another machine to upgrade so I ran an AB test comparing WSL 2 to WSL3 .

If you want a real bump in performance, I have a clever trick . Hardware isn’t cheap these days, so we demand the most of our software.

> If you want a real bump in performance, I have a clever trick . Hardware isn’t cheap these days, so we demand the most of our software.

Good trick: get rid of the superfluous Windows layer which stands between that expensive hardware and your target OS. It takes up valuable memory, CPU time and storage space, introduces latency where you don't want it, exfiltrates data to unknown destinations and can decide to "upgrade" itself without warning.

Good tricks need catchy names to succeed so how about NoSL?