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

  • @nao@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    46•2 days ago

    I think it’s an attempt to keep people on their platform who need easy access to a unix-like shell. Linux has it and so does mac os. Windows didn’t until they introduced wsl.

      • @lobut@lemmy.caEnglish
        20•2 days 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.

      • DacoTacoEnglish
        2•1 day ago

        Ye, and cygwin, mingw and msys are terrible compared to wsl

      • @mvirts@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1•1 day ago

        has, they still work great and keep me sane

        MSYS2 is my current choice for GNU/Windows