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The Windows Subsystem for Linux allows you to download and install Linux and run command-line tools (and soon full-fledged desktop apps) on a Windows 10 computer. But installing a Linux distro using ...

The Windows Subsystem for Linux has been allowing users to run Linux applications on Windows PCs since 2016, but for most of that time you’ve had to jump through some hoops to enable the feature. Now ...

The Windows Subsystem for Linux, or WSL for short, makes it easy to use Linux software inside a Windows PC. You can now officially use Arch Linux in WSL, alongside existing distribution options like ...

Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) has brought the Linux kernel to Windows. Does that really matter, you might ask, since WSL already did an excellent job of emulating Linux? Oh yeah it does. It ...

Microsoft released improvements to its Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL) in a Windows 10 preview build on Wednesday, with features benefiting newcomers and developers alike. As part of the update, ...

Windows 10's latest flagship feature is the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), and it allows you to run Linux distributions directly within the Windows 10 operating system. In the next feature update, ...