WSL 2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux 2) is a new version of the architecture in WSL that changes how Linux distributions interact with Windows. WSL 2 has the primary goals of increasing file system ...

WSL is a virtual environment that allows you to easily run Linux on Windows. Conventionally, it was necessary to use virtualization software such as VMware and VirtualBox to run Linux on Windows, but ...

I've been writing almost all my scripts in Bash and running them under Cygwin for years now. I'm interested in WSL largely because of that. Is there a compelling reason to adopt WSL instead of Cygwin?

Microsoft declared this week that Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2 (WSL2) is now available for installation on Windows Server 2022. WSL is a component that supports running Linux dev tools (but ...