Microsoft BitNet: inference framework for 1-bit LLMs

I'm glad Microsoft uses Bash in the example, instead of their own Windows shells. As a user I would like having something like "Git Bash" for Windows built in the system, as default shell.

WSL is where it's at today. It's not quite what you're asking for, as it is a separate virtual OS, but the integration is so tight that it feels like you're using your favorite shell natively in Windows.

> integration is so tight that it feels like you're using your favorite shell natively in Windows

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.

Probably because it has relatively painless GPU sharing with pass through. As far as I know that sort of feature requires a hypervisor-level VM, which is not something you get with VirtualBox.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you can use a KVM or QEMU backend for VirtualBox and that way get GPU pass-through. Probably not out of the box though.