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Windows Subsystem for Linux

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From the course: Linux Tips

Windows Subsystem for Linux

- I have a confession to make. For a long time, at the beginning of my computing experience, I was a Windows guy. I could administer a Windows NT domain with the best of them. Well, I was pretty good at it, for a high school sophomore. I made fun of my Mac friends, and later, my Linux friends for using an operating system that I thought was too much like a toy, or too hard for a normal human to use. But I learned to embrace other operating systems, and so did Windows. In 2016, Microsoft released the Windows Subsystem for Linux. To people who had followed Windows for a long time, this seemed like either an absolute heresy or a sudden outbreak of common sense. The Windows Subsystem for Linux, or WSL, lets you run Linux programs right on your Windows desktop, instead of in a virtual machine or through a terminal session. By itself, the Windows Subsystem for Linux is a compatibility layer for Linux executables to run against the Windows kernel. There's no Linux kernel in sight, though…

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