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Today we’re very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This is the result of a multiyear effort to prepare for this, and a great closure to the first ever issue raised on the Microsoft/WSL repo:

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL

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[–] EON_GuG@lemm.ee 101 points 2 weeks ago (50 children)

Don't you think this is another Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish strategy from Microsoft?

[–] nao@sh.itjust.works 49 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I think it's an attempt to keep people on their platform who need easy access to a unix-like shell. Linux has it and so does mac os. Windows didn't until they introduced wsl.

[–] anachrohack@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Well windows had cygwin and mingw

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

has, they still work great and keep me sane

MSYS2 is my current choice for GNU/Windows

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