We alter dozens of settings to defaults that make sense for the WSL environment. Unlike the other distributions available for WSL, Pengwin is designed for WSL first.
> Pengwin is also the first Linux distribution pre-configured and optimized to run specifically on Windows® Subsystem for Linux, a Microsoft-supported feature of Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019.
Yes. What kinds of optimizations make it optimized? This is my original question. Telling me the equivalent of "read the article" changes nothing when I've already done so and that it doesn't say what's been changed to make it optimized.
I've yet to carefully go through all 900 commits of with subject lines almost entirely of pull request #s, but one would think if whole repo's title was how it was "optimized" they could substantiate what they mean or what they did.
I'm not sure if/what they changed in the distribution itself, but tooling optimizations are in the list:
* Pengwin includes wslu, a set of useful open-source utilities for interacting between WSL and Windows 10
* Manage your Microsoft Windows and Azure deployments with PowerShell and azure-cli, command line tools for Azure.
* Enable/disable Windows Explorer shell integration.
* Configure experimental GUI settings, including a Windows 10 theme for your Linux applications, HiDPI support and international input methods.
* Create a secure bridge to Docker running on Windows.
* Support for many Linux graphical applications with no need to configure display or libGL in Pengwin. (Requires a Windows-based X server, such as X410.)
* Pengwin provides faster patching for WSL-specific bugs than any upstream Linux distro available on WSL.
What makes this optimized for WSL?