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WSL1 worked this way, but this approach has many drawbacks (e.g. FS operations are slower on Windows, which can have massive impacts on Linux application performance).
Since WSL2 they switched to a VM approach - Windows and a specialized Linux are both running under a hypervisor next to each other.