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Fedora 42 prerelease build for WSL running inside Windows Terminal.
Fedora 42 is the latest official Linux release for Windows 11's WSL

By Richard Devine Published

Software A few weeks after it actually dropped, Microsoft has reminded everyone you can now use an official build of Fedora 42 on WSL.

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Arch Linux running on Windows 11 with WSL
Arch Linux now officially supports WSL 2 on Windows 11

By Richard Devine Published

Software Having previously been teased, Arch Linux has quietly rolled out its official version for Microsoft's WSL, a couple of weeks after Fedora did the same.

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Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora running on WSL on a Snapdragon X Elite laptop
How to install WSL on Windows 11

By Richard Devine Last updated

Software WSL 2 is a significant upgrade over the initial version of the Windows Subsystem for Linux, so here's how to make sure you have it installed.

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Ubunutu 24.04 running on WSL 2 on Windows 11 inside Windows Terminal.
How to remove a Linux distro from WSL

By Richard Devine Last updated

Software Installing a Linux distro in WSL is easier than ever, but how do you properly remove one?

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Fedora 42 prerelease build for WSL running inside Windows Terminal.
Help test Fedora 42 for WSL before its launch later this year

By Richard Devine Published

Software Fedora 42 will mark the first official release of the Linux distro for WSL, and in advance of its release, users are encouraged to take part in a test day.

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Ubuntu on WSL doesn't have to rely on the Microsoft Store any longer

By Richard Devine Published

Software Canonical has announced that Ubuntu for WSL will be moving to the new tar-based distribution model.

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WSL 2 users will soon be able to say "I use Arch, BTW"

By Richard Devine Published

Software Saying you use Arch Linux became a meme, but it'll soon apply to Windows 11 users too, thanks to WSL 2.

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Microsoft's WSL 2 looks like it could be getting even stronger with official support from Fedora

By Richard Devine Published

WSL WSL on Windows 11 might be getting an official Fedora release

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Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora running on WSL on a Snapdragon X Elite laptop
Microsoft has already rolled back the kernel in WSL2 while issues are debugged

By Richard Devine Published

Rollback The pre-release version of WSL2 that had been bumped to a more modern 6.6 kernel has been rolled back to the older kernel due to unspecified issues to debug.

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Piping the contents of a .bashrc file to the Windows 11 clipboard from WSL
Like me, you might not have known this handy Windows 11 clipboard terminal trick for PowerShell and WSL

By Richard Devine Published

Pipe it It's always fun to learn a new terminal trick, and this one helps you pipe command outputs directly to the Windows clipboard whether you're in PowerShell, Command Prompt or WSL.

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