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by IshKebab 28 days ago
No, we've been through this. The WSL logic is that it's the Windows Subsystem for [running] Linux.
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Yes it's a riff on WSL. It wouldn't make sense to flip the naming around - people would then just be confused about the naming in the other direction.
It was mostly in jest, but consistency would be nice - even if WSL makes no sense.