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 closes 9-year-old feature request, open-sources Windows Subsystem for Linux WSL has also recently added official support for both Fedora and Arch distros.

Those versions of Windows allow users to install WSL using a single PowerShell command. Now there's an app-ified version of WSL available via the Microsoft Store that can be installed with one click.

If you primarily use Linux but might have to administer a Windows server, you might benefit from having PowerShell installed on your Linux system. Or maybe you're more familiar with Windows.

Removing everything and then attempting the hail-mary of installing straight from the store (shows version 1.0.0.0 installed) results in a Windows Subsystem for Linux entry in the start menu, but ...