Using the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), you can launch Linux applications directly in a Windows 10 command prompt or PowerShell prompt.

CodeWeavers, which develops software for running Windows programs on Mac and Linux, has just shown what could be a better way to run those same programs on a Chromebook.

Thanks to WINE and its commercial big brother, CrossOver, you can run some popular Windows programs on Linux.

How to launch a Windows 10 executable from WSL Linux Both Windows 10 and Linux use a 'PATH' variable that contains a list of folders that are searched when you execute a program.

So now you can run some (but not all) Windows apps in Windows… by routing them through a Linux-based Windows compatibility layer. Or, you know… you could just run them using Windows.

You can run many native Windows programs on Linux using Wine. This can be hard to set up, but its commercial brother, CodeWeaver’s Crossover Linux, makes it easy to set up many proprietary ...

In today's open source roundup: How to run Windows software in your favorite Linux distribution. Plus: Four tools to securely delete data in Linux, and MIPS-powered Chromebooks might be on the way.

This is not a drill. Thanks to WSL, you can now run a virtual instance of Arch Linux.

Wine, a free Windows compatibility tool for Linux (and other Intel-based systems), aims to make those programs run without too much cross-system trickery.

How-To Running Graphical Programs on Windows Subsystem on Linux Pushing the boundaries of what WSL can do. By Tom Fenton 02/08/2017 ...