Microsoft has transformed the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) into an app that you can simply download and install from the Microsoft Store on Windows 11. A preview version of the app is ...

If you’ve upgraded Windows 10 to Windows 11, and already had WSL installed, you can still go to the Microsoft App Store and install the new version from there (the original and new versions can ...

Microsoft is making available today, October 11, a preview version of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) for Windows 11 in the Microsoft Store. This isn't a new version of WSL; Microsoft is ...

hands on If you're building a website that will eventually be hosted on a Linux server (as so many are), you have a couple of ...

Microsoft specifically calls out "GUI app support, GPU compute, and Linux file system drive mounting" as the kinds of major features that can be added via Microsoft Store updates, in addition to ...

The Microsoft Store is now another distribution channel that users can utilize to install Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on their Windows 11 machines. It will enable a faster update cadence.

Windows Subsystem for Linux in the Microsoft Store is launching initially as a preview, so there’s a chance there could still be some bugs to work out before the training wheels come off.

Here's a direct link to the Microsoft Store page for the WSL app. It's roughly 442MB in size, so it won't hog too much space on your PC. It is currently considered a "Preview," though, so be ...

The Microsoft Store version of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), which allows you to run Linux applications on Windows 10 and Windows 11 devices, has reached version 1.0.0 and is now available to ...

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.