Once WSL is installed, you can then go to the Microsoft Store and search for WSL Arch Linux. To install it, simply click on the Get button and it will be downloaded and installed from the Store.

W hen Windows announced it was adding built-in support for Linux via the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), it looked ...

WSL has its place, and I think it's a great addition to the arsenal of tools on Windows, but there are some reasons why I prefer using Linux as a dual-boot instead of through WSL.

Later, wsl.exe will make it simple to install a specific Linux distribution and version, such as Ubuntu 20.04 or Arch Linux 2020.05.01. WSL 2.0, in Windows 10 version 2004, already works well.

In WSL 2, the Linux kernel runs on a hypervisor (Hyper-V), similar to its Linux counterpart KVM/Qemu. The kernel offers functions to ensure communication between the guest and host systems.

What you need to know WSL 2 on Windows 11 already has significant support from Linux distro makers such as Ubuntu, but another big name looks to be throwing their hat in the ring. Fedora, the ...

There's WSL 1 and WSL 2, and Linux distributions for both of them. There's the in-Windows version of WSL—enabled as an "optional component" in Windows—and the Store version.

And, Canonical, we now know, wants to see the Ubuntu Linux desktop succeed in a new frontier: Windows SubSystem for Linux (WSL). Ubuntu was the first Linux supported by WSL on Windows 10.