WSL will not work on your computer if the feature itself is disabled, this seems self-explanatory, but a lot of users tend to leave WSL disabled when trying to access the feature. This problem can ...

When Microsoft slipped the first public preview of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) into the Windows 10 Anniversary Update in August 2016, it mostly appeared to be a niche convenience aimed at ...

Installing Linux distributions using WSL is simple enough. The official Microsoft Store has plenty of distros to choose from, ...

Microsoft has added the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) as a separate app to the Microsoft Store with the release of Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22518 to the Dev Channel. The WSL store app for ...

Supporting systemd required changes to the WSL architecture. As systemd requires PID 1, the WSL init process started within the Linux distribution becomes a child process of the systemd. Because the ...

Linux users are likely familiar with Wine—a piece of software that allows Windows software to be run on Linux. But did you know you can download and run Linux on Windows natively, and through the ...

Both Ubuntu 21.10 and Windows 11 are arriving next month, with the public release dates being October 14 for the former, and about a week prior on October 5 for Windows 11. As such, a recent ...

The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is an optional feature that allows you to install and run a Linux distribution and run Linux applications in Windows without dual-booting or installing a ...

Microsoft announced at the Microsoft Build 2025 event held on May 20, 2025 that it has open sourced Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), a system for running the Linux kernel inside a virtual machine, ...

At the Microsoft Build 2020 virtual developers' conference, CEO Satya Nadella announced that Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2.0 would soon support Linux GUIs and applications. That day is closer ...