WSL1 certainly felt that way, WSL2 just feels like any other virtualization manager and basically works the same. Not sure why people sings the praise of WSL2, I gave it a serious try for months but there is a seemingly endless list of compatibility issues which I never had with VMWare or VirtualBox, so I just went back to those instead and the experience is the same more or less.
Not sure what you mean by “default shell”. The default shell on Windows is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_shell. I don’t suppose you mean booting into Bash. Windows doesn’t have any other notion of a default shell.
> A demo of bitnet.cpp running a BitNet b1.58 3B model on Apple M2:
And this is in their Windows build instructions:
> Important! If you are using Windows, please remember to always use a Developer Command Prompt / PowerShell for VS2022 for the following commands