awesome-wsl
github.com/sirredbeard/awesome-wsl ↗Awesome list dedicated to Windows Subsystem for Linux
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Unofficial Distributions
- acme-wsl
Install acme / plan9port on Debian, Ubuntu, or Kali Linux distributions on WSL.
- AlpineWSL
Alpine in WSL.
- AmazonWSL
Amazon Linux as a WSL distro.
- ArchWSL
ArchLinux in WSL.
- CentWSL
CentOS as a WSL distro.
- DevuanWSL
Devuan Linux as a WSL Distro. Devuan is a Debian variant without the complexities and dependencies of systemd.
WSL Tools
- Alacritty
A terminal emulator with focus on performance and simplicity.
- Ansible-WSL
Provision WSL using Ansible.
- BootShellCredentialProvider
BSCP lets you boot Windows directly into a Linux desktop experience such as xfce4 using Windows native login and a combination of Xming & WSL upon login.
- claude-code-wsl2-setup
Documentation and scripts that fix Claude Code (Anthropic's CLI) papercuts on WSL2 + Windows Terminal: screenshot paste via Windows clipboard polling, balloon-tip notifications gated on foreground window, LSP plugin wiring, voice mode via ALSA → PulseAudio → WSLg, and more.
- cmd-colors-solarized
This is a solarized color scheme for the Windows command prompt that works in WSL.
- community.wsl.sdk
SDK for Windows Subsystem for Linux for .NET 5, 6 and Standard 2.1
Overview
- Announcing WSL25. WSL2
Microsoft blog announcing WSL2
- The new Windows subsystem for Linux architecture: a deep dive5. WSL2
WSL2 presentation at Microsoft Build 2019
- Windows and Ubuntu Interoperability7. Details
- Windows for Linux Nerds7. Details
- Windows Server Installation Guide8. Installation
Microsoft's official guide for Windows Server.
- Windows Subsystem for Linux Documentation7. Details
Using WSL
- Ansible
- Arduino setup checklist
Checklist to connect Arduino board from WSL 1.
- Awesome Command Line Apps
- Azure
- Badass Terminal
- CUDA drivers and toolkit
Related Projects
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- Cmder
A very nice console emulator built on ConEmu.
- Cygwin
Cygwin is a Unix-like environment and command-line interface for Microsoft Windows.
- PowerShell
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- PuTTY
PuTTY is an SSH and telnet client, developed originally by Simon Tatham for the Windows platform.
- Visual Studio 2017
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