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by nolok 3172 days ago
That's because they need the public and marketing name to be understood not by the tech deciders who understands what it is and how it works, but by their boss.

Said boss have very little idea what "kernel compatibility layer" or "running ELF binary as-is" means, but they do get "running linux".
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stephenr 3172 days ago
The announcement that includes the name change (from bash on Windows of all things) is pages long.

They could have said "run a Linux Distribution" or "run Debian/RedHat/Centos".

This is aimed at technical people, who should either know or be able to understand that Linux is the name of the kernel and is explicitly not part of this - WSL is (claimed to be) free of any Linux source.

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