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The best part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux

Always create a fresh drive image before making system changes/Windows updates; you may need to start over!

We all have our own reasons for doing the things that we do with our systems; we don't need anyone's approval, and we don't all have to do the same things.

We were all once "Average Users".

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bbearren, Thanks for making this article in “Ars Technica” accessible from your comment. It explains several things I was curious about, including the way Linux is supposed to work under Windows (virtualization, if I got this right) ; that one can choose to install one of several distros, beginning with Ubuntu; that, in fact, one can install several distros together, to be able to use any of them at any given time. It also points out to several improvements in the underpinning Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) compared with the previous version. It also indicates that this is still work in progress and, my own take after reading this, is that people that have to use Windows but also work with others that do so with Linux, for example, might find this new version of WSL still somewhat limiting.

One thing I am still unclear about is whether this is a real kind of Linux in the full sense of the word: if it is using the Linux format of binary files, in particular.

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? says:

Oscar, here are some links to look at:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-2-on-microsoft-windows-10

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install

https://ubuntu.com/wsl

if you try it let us know how/if you like it…

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Anonymous #2394580  , thanks.

Still I have not found an explicit statement that, for example, using this “Linux on Windows” will make binary files in the Linux format, so one can exchange, for example, executables with users of “Linux on Linux.”

In other words, that this is compatible all the way and can be used to participate in projects where the other participants work on actual Linux PCs.

Ex-Windows user (Win. 98, XP, 7); since mid-2017 using also macOS. Presently on Monterey 12.15 & sometimes running also Linux (Mint).

MacBook Pro circa mid-2015, 15" display, with 16GB 1600 GHz DDR3 RAM, 1 TB SSD, a Haswell architecture Intel CPU with 4 Cores and 8 Threads model i7-4870HQ @ 2.50GHz.
Intel Iris Pro GPU with Built-in Bus, VRAM 1.5 GB, Display 2880 x 1800 Retina, 24-Bit color.
macOS Monterey; browsers: Waterfox "Current", Vivaldi and (now and then) Chrome; security apps. Intego AV

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? says:

i dunno, Oscar. i’m all linux all the time. maybe this is what you are asking?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/filesystems

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Anonymous: It answers my question in part, with this bit: “Run Linux binaries from the Windows Command Prompt (CMD) or PowerShell using wsl <command> (or wsl.exe <command>).”

It does not say if the executables one creates in WSL with any Linux distro available there can be sent to someone using a Linux PC and it will run there as well. It seems likely, but that really would be guessing.

Ex-Windows user (Win. 98, XP, 7); since mid-2017 using also macOS. Presently on Monterey 12.15 & sometimes running also Linux (Mint).

MacBook Pro circa mid-2015, 15" display, with 16GB 1600 GHz DDR3 RAM, 1 TB SSD, a Haswell architecture Intel CPU with 4 Cores and 8 Threads model i7-4870HQ @ 2.50GHz.
Intel Iris Pro GPU with Built-in Bus, VRAM 1.5 GB, Display 2880 x 1800 Retina, 24-Bit color.
macOS Monterey; browsers: Waterfox "Current", Vivaldi and (now and then) Chrome; security apps. Intego AV

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