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The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source.
(blogs.windows.com)
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this post was submitted on 19 May 2025
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WSL is just a way to actually get some shit done when there's a terrible business reason for requiring a native Windows install.
My Microsoft Surface became vastly more useable once I installed Linux on it.