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by 43224gg252 3251 days ago
Why? The Linux sub-system is the best part of Windows. He's doing them a favor.
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Extra dependencies are rarely ever doing anyone a favour. Yet another thing to keep up to date, occupy disk space, memory...
That's a pretty flimsy case when it's bundled with the OS and the performance and memory cost is in their court to improve.
It seems to still be a feature hidden under Developer Mode thus not appropriate as a dependency for end users.

Maybe OP is talking about tools installed on his/her own system only?

WSL is not always available for corp Windows setups