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by skrebbel 3353 days ago
It's confusing, but accurate. It's a subsystem of Windows ("Subsystem" is a well-defined term in Windows land, the win32 API is o its own subsystem as well).

I wish they had promoted the name lxss more, though. It's short, very googlable, and it's the internal name.

The git repo name is even more ridiculous: https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows

(after all, I had bash on windows for years already)