awesome-wsl

Microsoft blog announcing WSL2

WSL2 presentation at Microsoft Build 2019

WSL2-Linux-Kernel

The source for the Linux kernel used in Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

at MSDN

at MSDN

at MSDN

at MSDN

at MSDN

from docs.microsoft.com

from docs.microsoft.com

from Microsoft Developer YouTube channel

from Microsoft developer Jessie Frazelle

Microsoft's official guide for WSL

Microsoft's official guide for Windows Server

Windows-Subsystem-For-Linux-Setup

A basic guide for how to get setup with the WSL feature that is included with Windows 10

A book for anyone to get started with Unix/Linux environments

The Art of Command Line

Master the command line in one page

The Bash Academy is an initiative to promote the bash shell language and educate people on its use

One developer's approach to their development environment using WSL1

From the computer science department at Old Dominion University

WSL as a Development Environment

From the computer science department at University of Utah

Another developer's approach using the third-party terminal MobaXterm

ubuntu-win-boostrap

A very simple bootstrap script to install some development basic tools on Debian/Ubuntu on WSL

YouTube talk by Windows kernel team member Sarah Cooley on WSL for Windows

are required to be installed on Windows. 11.7 is recommended

will instruct how to install the CUDA requirements inside WSL. The Windows driver will be used through the 5.10 kernel

Checklist to connect Arduino board from WSL 1

Learning , , and generally

Building applications for , Microsoft's cloud platform

Leveraging the power of the shell and scripting to automate your personal workflow, like OCRing and sorting PDFs into folders using

with Xfce, Gnome, KDE, or i3.

Replacing Windows shell

Running Linux-based server applications like and locally for testing purposes

Managing your companies' CentOS servers using

for Ubuntu 18.04. Supported through April 2023. Very stable but some packages and libraries may be older

for Ubuntu 20.04. Supported through April 2025

for Ubuntu 22.04. Most recent update. Newer packages but more likely to encounter bugs. Supported through April 2027

for Ubuntu Community Preview. These builds are previews for testing new features and ideas, these are for early adopters report issues and give feedback below

guide to using apt from Ubuntu

from Ubuntu

More Information About the Ubuntu Community Previews

Report Issues and Give Feedback on the Community Previews Here

for Debian Stretch

post-installation guide for Debian users with a focus on the command line from Debian

guide to using apt from Debian

from Debian

for OpenSUSE Tumbleweed

for OpenSUSE Leap 15.3

for OpenSUSE Leap 15.2

for SUSE Enterprise Linux 15

from OpenSUSE

from SUSE

💰

💰

Demo

for Oracle Linux 7 Update 9

for Oracle Linux 8 Update 5

miniwsl

A mini Linux distribution for WSL powered by

ArchWSL

ArchLinux in WSL

AlpineWSL

Alpine in WSL

Fedora in WSL

WSLInstall

Install any GNU/Linux distribution userspace in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with compressed RootFS tarballs, Docker containers, or ISO files

wsldl

General purpose WSL installer and launcher

WSL-Distribution-Switcher

Scripts to replace the distribution behind WSL with any other Linux distribution published on . Includes alpine, CentOS, Fedora, Clear, and others

acme-wsl

Install acme / plan9port on Debian, Ubuntu, or Kali Linux distributions on WSL

CentWSL

CentOS as a WSL distro

RHWSL

Red Hat Universal Base Image as a WSL distro. If you have a Red Hat Subscription, you can register and subscribe the system and use it as RHEL

FedoraWSL

Fedora as a WSL distro

AmazonWSL

Amazon Linux as a WSL distro

GentooWSL

Gentoo as a WSL distro

DevuanWSL

Devuan Linux as a WSL Distro. Devuan is a Debian variant without the complexities and dependencies of systemd

ManjaroWSL2

Manjaro as a WSL2 distro based on wsldl

WSLackware

Slackware as a WSL distro

X server for Windows 10 on the Microsoft Store. 💰

X server for Windows with hardware acceleration compiled with Visual Studio

An X server for Windows 10 with an app launcher, distro manager, shortcut creator, and ssh launcher

X server for Windows from NetSarang. 💰

An older X server for Windows. Has not been updated since 2016

The current version of Xming, that is updated monthly. Donate at least £10 to have access to it. 💰

Cygwin/X is a port of the X Window System to the Cygwin API layer for Windows

Windows Terminal

The new open-source Windows Terminal

wsltty

Mintty as a terminal for WSL

wsl-terminal

A terminal emulator for WSL, based on mintty, fatty and wslbridge

A terminal for a more modern age

ConEmu aims to be handy, comprehensive, fast and reliable terminal where you may host any console application for the Windows command line, PowerShell, or WSL

Enhanced terminal for Windows with X11 server, tabbed SSH client, network tools and much more

extraterm

Open source project to build a terminal emulator and expand it with new features to support modern workflows

A terminal built on web technologies

Feature-rich tabbed terminal. Requires X server

Alacritty

A terminal emulator with focus on performance and simplicity

Fluent Terminal

A Terminal Emulator based on UWP and web technologies

Ansible-WSL

Provision WSL using Ansible

LxRunOffline

A full-featured utility for managing WSL

Raft is a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) distribution manager in native C#/XAML. 💰

WSL GUI Tool

A graphical tool to manage (run, stop, import, export...) WSL

WSL Distro Manager

GUI to manage, copy, distribute WSL distros

wslgit

Use git installed on WSL from Visual Studio Code on Windows

pinentry-wsl-ps1

Store passwords for gpg-agent in Windows Credential Manager

wslexec

Execute Linux executables as .exe files on Windows

wsl-proxy

A collection of 'proxy' batch files that can be used to route requests to the WSL version of a command

wslpath

Easily convert Windows to WSL path names and vice-versa

wsl-open

Open files with xdg-open in WSL from Windows applications

OpenInWSL

Easily Make WSL Linux Apps Windows File Handlers

is-wsl for Node

Check if the current process is running inside Windows Subsystem for Linux, useful for scripting

wsl-gui-bins

Start common GUI applications under WSL as under Linux

WSL-Hello-sudo

Use Windows Hello as your credential for

xclip-xsel-WSL

Make and in read and write on the Windows instead of the Linux clipboard.

vim-wsl-copy-paste

Adds mappings in Vim to write and read on the Windows clipboard.

Run WSL commands directly in Windows. Also allows to use WSL / /etc. in or another software. Combines functionality of utilities like , , etc. with simpler usage

community.wsl.sdk

SDK for Windows Subsystem for Linux for .NET 5, 6 and Standard 2.1

wslu

A collection of utilities for Windows 10 Linux Subsystem, such as enabling sound in WSL and creating your favorite linux GUI application shortcuts on Windows 10

wslpy

A Python3 library for WSL specific tasks

wsl-vpnkit

Script providing network connectivity to WSL 2 when blocked by VPN

xdg-open-wsl

xdg-open replacement for WSL that opens files and links using Windows applications

A version of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler built and optimized for WSL and hosted in a PPA for Debian and Ubuntu-based WSL distros

BootShellCredentialProvider

BSCP lets you boot Windows directly into a Linux desktop experience such as xfce4 using Windows native login and a combination of Xming & WSL upon login

wsl-dotfiles

Configuration files and scripts for creating an i3-based environment inside WSL

EnumWSL

Enumerates installed WSL packages

WSL-DistroLauncher

Reference launcher app for developing your own WSL distribution Microsoft Store package

WSL_Reverse

Reveal hidden COM interface between WSL and Lxss Manager Service

wslbridge

wslbridge is a Cygwin program that allows connecting to the WSL command-line environment over TCP sockets, as with ssh, but without the overhead of configuring an SSH server

WSLInstall

Install any Linux distribution userspace in WSL with compressed RootFS tarballs (tar.gz) or with Docker containers or with ISO files

cmd-colors-solarized

This is a solarized color scheme for the Windows command prompt that works in WSL

weasel-pageant

An ssh-agent compatible helper for interacting with Pageant from processes running on the Windows Subsystem for Linux

wsl2-ssh-pageant

A bridge between Windows Pageant and WSL2

WinCryptSSHAgent

Using a Yubikey for SSH Authentication on Windows Seamlessly. Supports WSL and WSL2

Files

A modern file explorer that supports WSL filesystem

easyWSL

Use any Docker image as a WSL distro

setup-wsl

A GitHub action to install and setup a Linux distribution for the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

A Practical Guide for Developers and IT Professionals

Microsoft

Microsoft

Microsoft

WSL-Programs

A community powered list of programs that work on the Windows Subsystem for Linux

Reddit subreddit

IRC channel on Libera.Chat

IRC channel on OFTC.net

WSL on GitHub

For reporting issues with WSL

For developers to send Microsoft feeback on WSL

Portable Node.js guide

Practical guide on how to write portable/cross-platform Node.js code

Programming question and answer site

Bash is the GNU Project's shell. Bash is the Bourne Again SHell. Bash is an sh-compatible shell that incorporates useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and C shell (csh)

Cygwin is a Unix-like environment and command-line interface for Microsoft Windows

A very nice console emulator built on ConEmu

PuTTY is an SSH and telnet client, developed originally by Simon Tatham for the Windows platform

PowerShell is a task automation and configuration management framework from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language

Visual Studio Code ("vscode") is a source code editor developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux, and macOS. It includes support for debugging, embedded Git control, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, snippets, and code refactoring

Visual Studio is an IDE from Microsoft. It is used to develop computer programs, as well as web sites, web apps, web services and mobile apps. Visual Studio uses Microsoft software development platforms such as Windows API, Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Store, and Microsoft Silverlight

SFU is a discontinued software package produced by Microsoft which provided a Unix environment on Windows NT and some of its immediate successor operating-systems. documentation

The Windows 10, WSL, and kernel teams at Microsoft, including but not limited to , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

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The on GitHub

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