I switched to WSL 2 and finally stopped feeling locked into Windows — here's why that changes everything.

The Windows Dev Docs team on Twitter recently posted an informal poll asking, "Well? What's your go-to command line?" with choices being the cmd Windows command prompt, PowerShell, WSL Bash and Azure ...

WSL 2 distros are now supported on Windows Server 2022. Those who want to use them just need to install a recent KB update and install WSL 2 from a PowerShell window with admin privileges. Microsoft ...

Let’s face it: Not everyone wants to futz with Linux. But within Windows, playing around with Linux is becoming easier and easier—enough that you can get up and running with little more than a single ...

The life of a Linux user can be a bit difficult. Sometimes you have to — or want to — run Windows. Why Windows? Sometimes you have a work computer or a laptop that Linux doesn’t support well. Or it ...

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 ...

WSL Kernel also referred to as Windows Subsystem for Linux updates automatically on Windows 11. But if you have paused automatic updates or for a reason WSL didn’t update automatically, you can ...

Both the Windows and Linux operating systems include applications that would be useful for either operating system. Unfortunately, to use Linux programs in Windows, you would typically need to find ...

Author and project developer Hayden Barnes has built Azure Linux Desktop as an experimental Windows app that boots a full ...