Over the past four years, I have written extensively about Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), and I have seen it grow during that time from being a mere curiosity to a mature product that has found ...

The Windows Subsystem for Linux has been allowing users to run Linux applications on Windows PCs since 2016, but for most of that time you’ve had to jump through some hoops to enable the feature ...

The Windows Subsystem for Linux allows you to download and install Linux and run command-line tools (and soon full-fledged desktop apps) on a Windows 10 computer.

Microsoft declared this week that Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2 (WSL2) is now available for installation on Windows Server 2022.

If you have used the following command to install Linux distributions in WSL, by default, version 2 will be installed on your system.

Activate the Windows Subsystem for Linux feature. Jim Salter Reboot to finish installation of the WSL feature. Note that you're not actually done yet—you still need a user environment beneath WSL.

After users installed the Windows 10 KB4571756 cumulative update released during the September 2020 Patch Tuesday, they were finding they could no longer use the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.

Now that it's been released with the latest Windows 10 Insider Preview build, find out how to install, enable and use WSL 2.

Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) is being released soon with the May 2020 Update (Windows 10 2004) and comes with new features and performance improvements.

Microsoft's latest Insider Build 20150 allows you to install the Windows Subsystem for Linx 2 via a typed command, and adds GPU compute support via Nvidia's CUDA.