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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

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Related Projects

  • Bash

    Bash is the GNU Project's shell. Bash is the Bourne Again SHell. Bash is an sh-compatible shell that incorporates useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and C shell (csh).

  • Cmder

    A very nice console emulator built on ConEmu.

  • Cygwin

    Cygwin is a Unix-like environment and command-line interface for Microsoft Windows.

  • PowerShell

    PowerShell is a task automation and configuration management framework from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language.

  • PuTTY

    PuTTY is an SSH and telnet client, developed originally by Simon Tatham for the Windows platform.

  • Visual Studio 2017

    Visual Studio is an IDE from Microsoft. It is used to develop computer programs, as well as web sites, web apps, web services and mobile apps. Visual Studio uses Microsoft software development platforms such as Windows API, Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Store, and Microsoft Silverlight.

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