Upgrades to WSL make Linux on Windows more powerful. Linux gets more direct access to GPUs and NPUs. A pure Linux desktop is still best for AI devs. Microsoft takes one more step towards a Linux ...

Some Windows users have noticed painfully slow downloads or laggy network responses inside WSL. This can be due to multiple reasons, but ultimately, the components working with NAT are at fault here.

Microsoft is delivering tools to quickly configure Windows PCs as workstations for Windows and Linux development.

The offices of Google are pictured in London on February 28, 2026. JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images Google released agents-cli on April 21, 2026, and it has shipped 13 updates in the 71 days since — ...

Microsoft has released Coreutils for Windows, allowing a stack of familiar “Linux-like” command-line utilities to run natively on Windows. What’s notable – *nix tools working their way into the ...

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We installed WSL Containers on Windows 11, built a custom container from scratch, tested it, and checked what still needs ...

Microsoft's WSL team has confirmed WSL 3 doesn't exist. It was mistaken for WSL Containers, which is arriving in few days as ...

Experience the best of both worlds with WSL, a lightweight and efficient solution for running Linux on Windows.

some have concluded this feature has become security theater in the consumer market than an effective feature (as opposed to the corporate environment where it's often mandated policy.) In some ways I ...