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I moved away from Ubuntu on bare metal to WSL, and my Windows 11 PC handles my everyday Linux tasks now

WSL is now responsible for my Linux misadventures ...
BetaNews

Ubuntu Linux on WSL gets massive upgrade with new tar-based install that makes Microsoft Store optional

If you are a Linux fan that is forced to use Microsoft Windows for some reason, you know how valuable Windows Subsystem for Linux is. If you aren’t familiar, WSL allows you to run a Linux environment ...

I had been using Windows 11, yet I didn't know about WSL

Long time no see!It has been a while since my last post, but I plan to continue writing articles about things that catch my ...
XDA Developers

WSL containers are about to make Docker on Windows obsolete

WSL containers reached general availability on September 29, and its built-in wslc command lets you build and run Linux ...
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WSL is the best feature added to Windows in the last decade

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 ...
Neowin

Windows 11's WSL 2 does fairly well against native Ubuntu, most of the time0 0

Following the comparison between Linux and Windows 11 using AMD's recently released Ryzen 7 7800X3D, WSL2 was also tested against native Ubuntu. The performance was decent most of the time. Phoronix ...
ZDNet

Microsoft finally open-sources (most of) Windows Subsystem for Linux

So, why would anyone want this ability? Microsoft created WSL primarily to provide developers, especially web developers, open source programmers, and anyone deploying to Linux server environments a ...
XDA Developers

WSL is the best feature added to Windows in the last decade

I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...