Pretend I'm an idiot (should be easy), and tell me what this all is up in here.
this post was submitted on 19 May 2025
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Ah, the Linux Subsystem for Windows (MSFT has never been great at naming things) is finally open source, hooray...
Now do it with rest of the operating system, and I may, possibly have a reason to care.
Windows, you mean? Please no, thanks, I don't need to see anything of that garbage
But it is not a "Linux Subsystem", it is a "Windows Subsystem".
If I write a hypothetical Driver for Linux to support windows, it would be a "Linux Module" not a "Windows Module".
I guess they could have called it "Windows Subsystem for Linux support"
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can some one ELI5.... is this a way for me to run windows stuff using linux? OR is this for linux stuff to run in windows?
I really want an easier way to run windows stuff in linux, my hatred grows with every notification, update, attempt to advertise to me, and interference in my workspace. but trialing mint is great but the ultimate test is failing with a few programs not really playing nice with linux.
This is for running Linux programs on Windows. ELI5: some programs are made to run on windows, and some programs are made to run on Linux. Microsoft made a thing for windows that makes it able to run programs that were supposed to run on Linux. That thing is called Windows Subsystem for Linux.
What windows programs do you have that are not working well on Linux? There are various tools to run windows programs on Linux, and some work better than others for specific programs. I have had good luck with bottles recently, you might try that if you have not already. Other options I've used with great success in the past: ploy on Linux, Lutris, and wine directly. They all us wine at some level, but have tried and tested configuration for various programs to run well, and help with the installation and management of different wine versions. Depending on your windows programs, one option might be to run windows in a VM on Linux, to run those few programs. Another benefit of this way is that your Linux system is somewhat isolated from your windows programs. This can help with privacy and security.
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Thanks for nothing Microsoft
some who can read code tell me why it sucks ass