There's some confusion about Ubuntu's popularity on Windows Subsystem for Linux, so I asked Canonical directly.

There's some confusion about Ubuntu's popularity on Windows Subsystem for Linux, so I asked Canonical's Jon Seager directly.

Ubuntu's VP of Engineering has shared some staggering information about the growth of the platform thanks to WSL.

It's not quite the same but it works well for development tasks ...

LSW loads and runs Windows PE executables directly on Linux — no Wine, no QEMU, no VM. It maps Win32 API calls to Linux equivalents at the binary level, translates Windows paths, emulates the ...

Microsoft has announced Coreutils, a new Windows 11 feature that allows developers to run many popular Linux command line utilities natively on Windows from a single binary. Revealed at this week’s ...

Microsoft has announced Coreutils for Windows, a new effort to bring familiar Linux-style command-line utilities directly to Windows. The project is based on uutils, an open-source Rust ...

Microsoft is embracing Linux-like command line utilities and integrating its Linux subsystem even further into Windows. Microsoft is embracing Linux-like command line utilities and integrating its ...

Microsoft has been pushing Windows 11 for developers for years, but it’s making its best push yet at Build 2026, with several new enhancements aimed at keeping existing developers while attracting ...

Microsoft previewed Windows Subsystem for Linux 3 at its Build 2026 keynote in San Francisco on Tuesday, delivering the architectural overhaul that AI-focused developers on Windows have been waiting ...