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

    • DacoTaco
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      219 hours ago

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

    • @lobut@lemmy.ca
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      211 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.world
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      22 hours ago

      has, they still work great and keep me sane

      MSYS2 is my current choice for GNU/Windows