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The Windows Subsystem for Linux (or WSL) team is here to answer your most pressing questions about running Linux workflows right on your Windows machine! We’ll talk about everything from new GUI application support in Windows 11, to GPU compute support, mounting drives, using USB devices and more. 

 

Thanks to everyone who joined this AMA and those who watched the live stream. Did you enjoy the event? Should we host regular WSL AMAs? If yes, how often? Let us know in the comments!

And visit our Windows Events page for a list of upcoming AMAs.

Heather_Poulsen
Updated Dec 27, 2024
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  • Reilly_Wood2335's avatar
    Reilly_Wood2335
    Brass Contributor
    Feb 23, 2022
    Do you have any plans to decouple WSL from UWP+MSIX? I would love to see a much simpler process for authoring+distributing WSL distros.
  • rado's avatar
    rado
    Occasional Reader
    Feb 23, 2022
    Do you have plans for adding a `--location` option to `wsl install`? It\'s pretty annoying that you can\'t directly install a new distro to a random drive, but you have to export and import instead, which makes it a challenge when there is no available space on your system drive.
  • Jeremy1988's avatar
    Jeremy1988
    Occasional Reader
    Feb 23, 2022
    WSL has been a great asset and used everyday on my development. I think it’s still under appreciated, which is a shame.\n\nAnyway, I guess I am just curious what’s the future for WSL look like? We just got GUI on windows 11, but is there anything else on the horizon one should look forward too?
  • Heather_Poulsen's avatar
    Heather_Poulsen
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    Feb 23, 2022

    Welcome to early access for the WSL AMA! Post your questions now in the Comments box and our experts will be ready to answer tomorrow at 8AM Pacific Time!