[legobmw99]

Yes, and I believe enabling it requires administrative rights so the risk to a lot of organizations with locked down Windows installs is minimal unless they’ve enabled WSL intentionally

[dudus]

I got WSL setup in my computer without the admin rights.

[wizzwizz4]

Sure you didn't just get it without UAC?

If you actually don't have admin rights, was this WSL1?

[dudus]

I honestly don't remember how I did it. But I have WSL2 with ubuntu. I know ubuntu I downloaded from the windows app store.

[tyingq]

That's interesting. The mainline builds seem to require running dism.exe with admin rights, and the preview builds require running "wsl.exe --install" with admin rights. Curious how you got around that.

[willis936]

Pretty much all government contractors use windows for bureaucratic and spying purposes. Good luck convincing your security-minded boss to let you have a linux playground when it increases attack surface area.