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by skrebbel 3264 days ago
The internal name is lxss. I'm sad they didnt make that the default because it's very googlable.

That said WSL tends to work if you pair it with whatever your issue is.

IMO the most ridiculous name in this whole story is their github repo, Microsoft/BashOnWindows. I mean, bash has worked fine on Windows for decades, and it doesn't require an entire subsystem at all :-) WSL isn't half bad compared to that.