Bash is available via a Universal Windows Platform app. The app runs on the Windows 10 desktop and provides an image of the Linux-based OS Ubuntu that Bash runs on.

The newest Windows 10 Fast Ring release, 14316, includes Ubuntu and Bash. It may not have a Linux foundation, but this is close as a Windows PC has ever come to also being a Linux computer.

So if you are a Windows 10 user who runs a VM or dual boots with Ubuntu to use Linux tools, you don’t have to do that anymore. You can now run Ubuntu inside Windows.

Thankfully there is an easier way than wiping your hands clean of Windows immediately. If you head over to the Windows 10 Store you’ll find Canonical’s Ubuntu available for download.

Ubuntu, but not Linux per se, will be running on in the next major Windows 10 update, Redstone. Written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Senior Contributing Editor March 30, 2016 at 11:46 a.m. PT ...

Canonical has released the latest version of Ubuntu, 20.10 Groovy Gorilla, and you can definitely get it installed on your Windows 10 PC with WSL. It's not being released through the ...

Update: Canonical’s Dustin Kirkland explains a bit further. Users will be able to type “bash” into the Windows 10 start menu to open a command line console that users Ubuntu’s /bin/bash.

In this guide, we'll show you the steps to successfully install Ubuntu, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, and openSUSE Leap 42 on your Windows 10 machine without errors.