The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
blogs.windows.com
Today we’re very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This is the result of a multiyear effort to prepare for this, and a great closure to the first ever issue raised on the Microsoft/WSL repo:

Today we’re very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This is the result of a multiyear effort to prepare for this, and a great closure to the first ever issue raised on the Microsoft/WSL repo:

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL

    • lobut@lemmy.caEnglish
      21·
      1 day ago

      I had to move back to those a few times instead of using WSL during the early days. There were quite a few growing pains.

      Fixed it fully by installing Linux.

    • mvirts@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      18 hours ago

      has, they still work great and keep me sane

      MSYS2 is my current choice for GNU/Windows