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Yeah, the greatest features of WSL1 was the fact that it wasn't a VM. All apps were running natively and managed by the windows kernel.

I now have to deal with the fact that every so often the WSL 2 VM will simply consume too much memory, which really stinks.

WSL1 felt SO close to being perfect.

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You can switch back and forth as required, from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-faq#what-w...:

What will happen to WSL 1? Will it be abandoned? We currently have no plans to deprecate WSL 1. You can run WSL 1 and WSL 2 distros side by side, and can upgrade and downgrade any distro at any time.

I get all that, but it's hard to imagine with the current naming scheme that you'll be doing much beyond the bare minimum support for WSL1. I have a hard time believing that new WSL1 features will land.

There's a giant chasm between "not deprecated" and "actively supporting".

For example, I'm guessing that running a docker container with WSL1 is something that will never happen.

Yea, but WSL1 has basically seen no new features or meaningful fixes since WSL2 was introduced.

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