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The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. (blogs.windows.com)

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Today we’re very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This is the result of a multiyear effort to prepare for this, and a great closure to the first ever issue raised on the Microsoft/WSL repo:

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL

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[–] anachrohack@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Well windows had cygwin and mingw

[–] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

Ye, and cygwin, mingw and msys are terrible compared to wsl

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 day ago

I had to move back to those a few times instead of using WSL during the early days. There were quite a few growing pains.

Fixed it fully by installing Linux.

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

has, they still work great and keep me sane

MSYS2 is my current choice for GNU/Windows