NixOS turns WSL into an environment you can rebuild, clone, and roll back with a single command, yet it still gives you the same GUI, GPU, and USB features that Ubuntu and Fedora get under modern WSL.

The newest Windows 10 Fast Ring release, 14316, includes Ubuntu and Bash. It may not have a Linux foundation, but this is close as a Windows PC has ever come to also being a Linux computer.

Probably the most used Linux distro on WSL will now use the tar-based distribution model and eliminate any requirement to use the Microsoft Store.

WSL was quietly placed in the Windows 10 (build 14251) code in late January. A few days later, a developer worked out that two new subsystems lxcore.sys and lxss.sys, could be bridges for Windows ...

Using Linux isn't just about the command line, and that includes the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). If you'd rather have a GUI to install packages and apps from, you're in luck.

Now, at Microsoft Build 2025, the company has made WSL open source, including its command-line tools (wsl.exe and wslg.exe), background services (wslservice.exe), and Linux-side daemons used to ...