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by jrs95 2738 days ago
Because almost nobody uses it so they don't care. The only reason they even made WSL was to compete with Mac, and make devices with odd hardware that didn't easily run desktop Linux (like Surface) more appealing to developers.
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Linux will run on almost everything these days. Of course they care: Linux desktops are finally starting to run out of the box. Kill the baby before it grows up.
You can totally run Linux on a Surface device! Its drivers are in the 4.16 kernel, maybe earlier.