[mwcampbell]

I wonder why Fedora doesn't provide an official WSL package on the Microsoft Store as other distros do. My guess is that they feel that the WSL kernel and init diverge too far from the Fedora kernel and systemd. Can anyone from the Fedora project comment on this?

[vetinari]

The reason is that Microsoft wanted indemnification agreement and Fedora refused to provide it.

More here: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]...

[sph]

No, it's not kernel related.

It's because Fedora strives to be open-source and free software only. WSL isn't completely libre so they can't support it officially and neither is the Windows Store. There's third party Fedora images for WSL you can install.

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]...

[BossingAround]

What would be the benefit for Fedora, given that it seems like non-trivial effort?