[ezy]

Honestly, as weird as cygwin can be, I question the judgement of relying on Linux's chief competitor to keep a mock linux kernel interface as well supported as the OS they really care about. Are you really sure that environment will be working in Windows 11... windows 12? etc?

This just seems like a really bad idea compared to simply running a VM and sharing a filesystem using networking or other means... It's not like a modern machine, even a shitty netbook nowadays, can't handle a virtualbox instance, or localhost networking.

[fetbaffe]

Microsoft of today is not a software company, they are a service company. So how their services are delivered, from a competitor for example, is not that relevant anymore.

But assume you are 100% right that the WSL environment is removed or stops working in Windows 11+, how is that affecting my Linux experience with WSL today? Not one bit, because if it would change in the next release I can when i happens start a Virtualbox, but why run it now and have inferior experience when the result is the same? Does not make any sense. Or I can switch to Linux even, still same old shell.