Microsoft Makes Fedora an Official Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) Distribution (betanews.com) 45
BrianFagioli writes: Fedora Linux is now officially available as a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) distribution! That's right, folks, following prior testing, you can now run Fedora 42 natively inside Windows using WSL. As someone who considers Fedora to be my favorite Linux distribution, this is a pretty exciting development.
Installing it is simple enough. Just open up a terminal and type wsl --install FedoraLinux-42 to get started. After that, launch it with wsl -d FedoraLinux-42 and set your username. No password is required by default, and you'll automatically be part of the wheel group, meaning you can use sudo right out of the gate.
Installing it is simple enough. Just open up a terminal and type wsl --install FedoraLinux-42 to get started. After that, launch it with wsl -d FedoraLinux-42 and set your username. No password is required by default, and you'll automatically be part of the wheel group, meaning you can use sudo right out of the gate.
That's nice (Score:3)
I could do that before manually. What I really want is to get out of the 5.15 kernel WSL has been stuck in or let me update it myself.
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Why don't you? WSL kernels can be recompiled easily enough on Windows.
Dave's Garage has a nice video on how you'd do this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
But there are plenty of sites showing how to rebuild the kernel on WSL2.
Microsoft Windows and Office are bloatware. (Score:4, Informative)
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Have an attaboy award.
Re: Microsoft Windows and Office are bloatware. (Score:2)
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This has nothing to do with running Linux
This is literally about running Linux. Why are you so salty when you're also so wrong? Are you just too cheap to pay for abuse like a responsible adult?
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So your saying you've never even used WSL2 and your an idiot, got it.
WSL2 doesn't give you a full Linux environment it's a subset of bash commands, a 5.15 kernel and the ability to launch graphical UI's from bash.
No one is running a Linux desktop from WSL2. The most handy GUI I run is Remmina which beats the hell out of RDC.
What we do use it for is Bind9 dns commands (dig for starts), network tools, etc because our work does not allow us to run anything but Win11 and getting windows based tools installed i
Re: Microsoft Windows and Office are bloatware. (Score:2)
"your an idiot"
Nice work there, sport.
You know what's even better? (Score:5, Insightful)
Running Fedora natively without the Microsoft privacy invasion-cum-advertisement platform underneath.
Re: You know what's even better? (Score:2)
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Hey folks look another idiot!
*Hey, folks! Look! Another idiot!
Alternately, you could use a comma in place of either of the first two exclamation points.
Hope this helps you escape your idiocy.
Fedora is my fav (Score:2)
And, as someone who considers Fedora to be my favorite Linux distribution, I don't give a rat's ass. Microsoft can suck it.
Re: Microsoft Sucking That IBM Cock! (Score:2)
I wonder what Canonical did to piss off Microsoft, as they used to be the default OS option?
Install Linux to use Windows... (Score:5, Interesting)
The ideal setup would be the other way around, run Linux natively, and host Windows 11 in a VM. That way you get a great native desktop operating system (Linux), and you have the dumpster sitting out back (Windows), for when you need to throw some trash around.
Re: Install Linux to use Windows... (Score:2)
What would be the best way to do that? Which version of Linux? What VM?
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The ideal setup would be the other way around, run Linux natively, and host Windows 11 in a VM. That way you get a great native desktop operating system (Linux), and you have the dumpster sitting out back (Windows), for when you need to throw some trash around.
done that for years. Then realized I hadn't run the windows VM for 2 years when I changed machine and never reset it up.
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Not for me (Score:1)
Installing: Windows Subsystem for Linux
The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it."
What Is WSL For? (Score:3)
I'm still struggling to understand what WSL is for and who is actually using it.
For those that use it; what are you using it for? Why is WSL preferable to native Linux bare metal or VM?
Re:What Is WSL For? (Score:4, Interesting)
But some people are not allowed to run native Linux on their work-machines, so WSL is the next best thing.
Using the OS the company requires as base and then use Linux to have useful tools.
Re: What Is WSL For? (Score:2)
"It is not preferable to native Linux, but it has better performance then a VM."
Sure, on a Windows host. Linux doesn't have that problem.
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With direct access to the lower-kernel parts of the Windows OS so you have near native performance.
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I strongly question the technical aptitude of anyone who asks these sorts of questions.
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I strongly question the technical aptitude of anyone who asks these sorts of questions.
Not being stuck in Windows land, and thus already knowing the answer, is not at all the same as lacking technical aptitude. It indicates someone who hasn't shackled themselves to a job that requires them to do everything in the dumbest manner possible like most of us, so they've never had a reason to explore the WSL subsystem in order to get work done on their corporate mandated Windows machine. Which hardly disqualifies them from having technical aptitude. They just don't have Windows experience.
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it tells me here's a person who considers themselves technical, but apparently doesn't know how to evaluate or find answers for something they haven't personally experienced. That's hilarious to me.
I've used a ton of stuff, never used a whole ton of other stuff stuff, I've also used a ton of stuff I hate, I've used a ton of stuff I love - and can still formulate answers on why people might need, or want, to use them, not use, not want, etc.
No, either the OP is being disingenuous with the word "struggle" or
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You're being pedantic, but I assume you would just call yourself "technical."
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I've got to say; everyone else who actually tried to answer the question are looking much smarter than you, right now.
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I'm still struggling to understand what WSL is for and who is actually using it.
For those that use it; what are you using it for? Why is WSL preferable to native Linux bare metal or VM?
Those of us living in corporate hellscape jobs that are forced to run Windows on the hardware for "security purposes" and still need to get actual work done use WSL to do the work, while we get constantly spammed by Teams and Outlook by the rest of the team. Sure, it's more of a struggle than running bare metal or a VM, but it's a corporate APPROVED struggle, as opposed to doing what makes sense, which is never corporate approved, because making sense as antithetical to business sense. Kinda like a ying-yan
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A couple of companies I have worked for are Windows 100%. Everything is very much locked down (can't even run an executable that somebody has not approved).
WSL gives me back a little usability and productivity. I can install linux and start coding (in whatever language), performing data analysis and generally using computers the way they should be used.
Some fuckwit computer 'experts', who only know Windows, just don't understand people being productive.
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I'm still struggling to understand what WSL is for
It's paravirtualized Linux. When it came out, it was very limited, now it isn't so much and performance is better than a full VM on Windows. It's for all the same stuff people would do with Linux in vmware player/workstation/etc. on Windows... if you must run Windows on the metal for some reason.
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Lots of my students aren't comfortable enough running Linux as a daily driver. But they still need to get shit done on their laptop.
WSL is a reasonable compromise until they know better.
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For those that use it; what are you using it for?
Running docker containers and doing web programming and development with them.
Why is WSL preferable to native Linux bare metal or VM?
To bare metal, because I have one work laptop, not two. Also don't particularly want to have to physically manage two.
To a VM, dunno that it is or not. But it's relatively easy to work with and one less thing I have to think about.
Fantastic news for Fedora users (Score:3)
Re:Fantastic news for Fedora users (Score:4, Insightful)
Yes, it's as if Microsoft has embraced the Linux wave and is extending an outstretched arm. I wonder what comes next? More fantastic news?
Some install tips. (Score:1)
2) Ran the first command given in the article:
wsl --install FedoraLinux-42
3) That seemed to work, but at the end got a message reboot required.
4) Did the reboot
5) Gave the next command (got an error)
wsl -d FedoraLinux-42
There is no distribution with the supplied name.
Error code: Wsl/Service/WSL_E_DISTRO_NOT_FOUND
6) So I repeated step #2, the install, ran more quickly, didn't get a reboot message.
7) T