XDA Developers on MSN

WSL is powerful, but these 3 reasons are why it won't beat a real Linux desktop

WSL uses Windows' native hypervisor (Hyper-V) to create lightweight virtual environments. The Linux distro that you install ...
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Microsoft open-sources Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and publishes code on GitHub

Microsoft announced at the Microsoft Build 2025 event held on May 20, 2025 that it has open sourced Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), a system for running the Linux kernel inside a virtual machine, ...
XDA Developers on MSN

WSL2 is good enough that I stopped dual-booting

If you go the dual-booting route, you lose control over one system compared to the rest. Figuring out GPU drivers is another ...