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.

The Windows Subsystem for Linux allows you to download and install Linux and run command-line tools (and soon full-fledged desktop apps) on a Windows 10 computer.

Here, users can choose between the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) mentioned above, a virtual machine (VM), a local installation on your computer, or in the cloud.

This How-To, therefore, is going to focus on just the first part of the blog, related to getting WSL running on Windows, and provide some more explicit steps for getting you up and running. If you've ...

2] Make sure that you are using the latest version of the WSL Linux Kernel Check if an update for the WSL Linux Kernel is available or not. If yes, install the update.

Instead, I went to the Windows Store, searched for Linux, picked the distros I wanted, and clicked Install for each. Once they’d downloaded, all I needed to do was open a terminal window and add ...

The latest Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20246 has further improved the Windows Subsystem for Linux, popularly referred to as WSL. Users of this latest Insider Preview build, available in the ...

Microsoft's latest Insider Build 20150 allows you to install the Windows Subsystem for Linx 2 via a typed command, and adds GPU compute support via Nvidia's CUDA.

It originally started out as an installation option for Windows client systems. The Ubuntu Linux distro gets installed by default with these WSL2 installs on Windows Server 2022.