How to Install Windows Subsystem for Linux | Linux Today

How to Install Windows Subsystem for Linux

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Sep 21, 2020

The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) runs a GNU/Linux Environment which includes most of the command-line utilities and applications on top of Windows OS. Traditionally there are many ways we can set up Linux OS to work with. Either it can be a dual boot, running through VMWare or VirtualBox, or installing it as our main OS.

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