WSL graphics driver update brings better GPU support for Linux apps

Running Linux virtualized on Windows is set to speed up slightly, and so is running Windows apps on top of 64-bit Linux and ...
Neowin

Windows 11's WSL 2 does fairly well against native Ubuntu, most of the time0 0

Following the comparison between Linux and Windows 11 using AMD's recently released Ryzen 7 7800X3D, WSL2 was also tested against native Ubuntu. The performance was decent most of the time. Phoronix ...
Bleeping Computer

Windows 10 2004 to Upgrade WSL2 Linux Kernels via Windows Update

Microsoft has announced that the upcoming Windows 10 2004 release will also include Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) whose Linux kernel will be kept updated via Windows Update. When Microsoft ...
Bleeping Computer

Windows 10 tests WSL2 Linux Kernel updates via Windows Update

In the latest Windows 10 Insider build, Microsoft has started to test the distribution of Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2 kernels via Windows Update. When Microsoft announced WSL2, they ...
ZDNet

Microsoft: WSL2's Linux kernel will be delivered to Windows 10 users via Windows Update

Microsoft is expected to begin rolling out Windows 10 2004 (the Windows 10 20H1 feature update) any day now. One of that release's biggest new features is the second version of the Windows Subsystem ...
SlashGear

Windows Can Now Run Linux GUI Apps Directly In WSL2 Preview

A few decades ago, the powers that be at Microsoft characterized Linux and open source in general as a cancer. Today, the company has pretty much embraced and even extended them, acquiring GitHub and ...
HotHardware

Microsoft Will Deliver Linux GUI App Support To Windows 10 With WSL2

Microsoft was once apprehensive about Linux, with Steve Ballmer likening the operating system in 2001 to a “cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.” ...