A few decades ago, the powers that be at Microsoft characterized Linux and open source in general as a cancer. Today, the company has pretty much embraced and even extended them, acquiring GitHub and ...

Windows 10 now lets you run Linux GUI apps (X11 and Wayland) without using a virtual machine after Microsoft added GUI support to the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). "The Windows Subsystem for ...

1) Run Linux (CLI and GUI) natively on Windows 10/11 with WSL. 2) Enable WSL + Virtual Machine Platform, enable BIOS virtualization, then install distros via Store or wsl --install. 3) Update with apt ...

For those that want *nix tools on Windows without WSL, I highly recommend MSYS2. The mintty terminal that comes with MSYS2 should even help WSL users that want a good terminal without having to run ...

Microsoft has announced that it's now possible to run graphical Linux apps in Windows 10 using the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This feature was first released to Windows Insiders. As this year's ...

On April 21, Microsoft released a new Windows 10 test build, 21364, to the Dev Channel. This build includes a few new noteworthy features including the ability to run Linux graphical user interface ...

Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) has allowed users to install a Linux distribution and run command line applications since Windows 10 first launched in 2015. Initially aimed at developers ...

Microsoft has released this week's build of Windows 10 to Insiders in the Dev channel. Build 21364 includes the ability to run GUI Linux apps through WSL, improvements to Task Manager, and more. With ...

When Windows announced it was adding built-in support for Linux via the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), it looked promising. However, it was riddled with issues ...

When the announcement first came out, I immediately tried to install it on my Windows 10 system. The same system that had been running the "feature" version. The same system were I installed WSL using ...