Windows Subsystem for Linux Articles & Reviews |
| The Performance Cost To Ubuntu WSL2 On Windows 11 25H2 | Operating Systems | 2025-09-15 |
| Windows 11 WSL2 Performance vs. Ubuntu Linux With The AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | Operating Systems | 2023-04-26 |
| Windows 11 WSL2 Performance Is Quite Competitive Against Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Ubuntu 21.10 | Operating Systems | 2021-09-29 |
| An Early Look At Windows 11 WSL2 Performance Against Ubuntu Linux | Operating Systems | 2021-07-06 |
| Windows Subsystem For Linux / WSL2 Performance With The AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | Operating Systems | 2020-12-16 |
| Windows 10 May 2020 Performance For WSL vs. WSL2 | Operating Systems | 2020-06-17 |
| Windows Subsystem For Linux Performance At The End Of 2019 | Operating Systems | 2019-12-11 |
| Initial Benchmarks Of Microsoft's WSL2 - Windows Subsystem For Linux 2 On Windows 10 Is A Mixed Bag | Operating Systems | 2019-06-14 |
| WLinux & WLinux Enterprise Benchmarks, The Linux Distributions Built For Windows 10 WSL | Operating Systems | 2019-01-18 |
| Windows Server 2019 Performance Benchmarked Against Linux On An Intel Xeon Server | Operating Systems | 2018-12-27 |
| A Look At The Windows 10 October 2018 Update Performance With WSL | Operating Systems | 2018-10-12 |
| Using W10Privacy To Boost Ubuntu WSL Performance On Windows 10 | Software | 2018-06-18 |
| Benchmarking Ubuntu 18.04 On Windows Subsystem for Linux: WSL Leading Bare Linux In More Tests | Operating Systems | 2018-05-18 |
| Windows 10 vs. Windows WSL vs. Linux - Ubuntu / openSUSE / Debian / Clear Linux | Operating Systems | 2018-03-28 |
| Windows 10 WSL vs. Linux Performance For Early 2018 | Operating Systems | 2018-02-22 |
| Windows 10 WSL vs. Docker on Windows 10 vs. Bare Metal Linux Performance | Operating Systems | 2017-12-01 |
| Windows 10 WSL: Ubuntu vs. openSUSE Leap Performance | Operating Systems | 2017-08-04 |
| Windows 10 WSL CPU Scaling Performance vs. Linux | Operating Systems | 2017-08-01 |
| Windows 10 WSL vs. VirtualBox Ubuntu Performance On An Intel Core i9 7900X | Operating Systems | 2017-07-05 |
| Windows 10 Creators WSL vs. Clear Linux vs. Ubuntu 17.04 | Operating Systems | 2017-04-28 |
| Ubuntu 14.04/16.04 vs. Ubuntu Bash On Windows 10 Anniversary Performance | Operating Systems | 2016-08-09 |
Windows Subsystem for Linux Linux & Open-Source News |
| AMD Expands ROCm Support On Windows WSL To More Ryzen Hardware | AMD | 2026-05-06 |
| Microsoft Upgrades Its WSL2 Kernel Against Linux 6.18 LTS | Microsoft | 2026-04-11 |
| AMD Improves GPU Support Under WSL With Production Open-Source ROCDXG | Radeon | 2026-03-30 |
| Microsoft's DXGKRNL Driver Updated For Linux - Many Changes After Four Years | Microsoft | 2026-03-19 |
| AMD Releases MLIR-AIE 1.2 Compiler Toolchain For Targeting Ryzen AI NPUs | AMD | 2026-01-24 |
| Gentoo Linux Made Progress On RISC-V, WSL & More In 2025 While Pulling In Just $12k USD | Operating Systems | 2026-01-06 |
| Windows WSL 2.7.0 Released With Newer Linux 6.6 LTS Point Release, Many Fixes | Microsoft | 2025-12-11 |
| Canonical Now Offering Ubuntu Pro For WSL | Ubuntu | 2025-12-02 |
| Intel Arc Pro B50, Raspberry Pi 500+, Strix Halo & Other September Highlights | Phoronix | 2025-10-01 |
| Ryzen AI Max+ With Framework Desktop, File-System Tests & EPYC 4005 Dominated Q3 | Phoronix | 2025-09-29 |
| ASRock AI Quickset WSL Aims To Make It Easier Running ROCm + AI Linux Apps On Windows | AI | 2025-09-15 |
| Fish Shell 4.0.6 Released With Many Fixes | Free Software | 2025-09-12 |
| WSL2 Vulnerability Could Lead To Elevating Local Privileges | Microsoft | 2025-08-13 |
| Windows Subsystem For Linux "WSL" Updated For A Yet-To-Be-Public Security Vulnerability | Microsoft | 2025-08-06 |
| Framework 12, AMD Strix Halo & Linux Kernel Improvements Were Most Popular In June | Phoronix | 2025-07-01 |
| Microsoft Releases WSL 2.6 As The First Open-Source Release | Microsoft | 2025-06-20 |
| Microsoft Lands 62k Lines Of Code Patch In Mesa: Adds New "MFT" Gallium3D Frontend | Microsoft | 2025-05-23 |
| Microsoft Makes "Edit" Command Line Editor Open-Source, WSL Going Open-Source Too | Microsoft | 2025-05-19 |
| Microsoft Welcomes Fedora Linux As An Official WSL Distro | Microsoft | 2025-05-06 |
| Fish 4.0 Shell Released With Code Ported From C++ To Rust | Free Software | 2025-02-27 |
| Wine Staging 10.2 Adds Support For AF_UNIX Sockets | WINE | 2025-02-22 |
| Ubuntu 25.04 Working To Better Cope With BitLocker-Enabled Windows, Other Improvements | Ubuntu | 2025-02-22 |
| Microsoft Lands Direct3D 12 Video Encode Improvements For HEVC In Mesa 25.1 | Mesa | 2025-02-04 |
| Fedora 42 Cleared To Ship WSL Images For Easy Windows Subsystem For Linux Use | Fedora | 2025-01-13 |
| Microsoft Continued With Many Linux & Open-Source Announcements In 2024 | Microsoft | 2024-12-31 |
| Intel Compute Runtime Now Advertises Production Support For Battlemage GPUs | Intel | 2024-12-24 |
| Redox OS Makes Progress On Emulator Support, Better Documentation & Hardware Fixes | Operating Systems | 2024-12-05 |
| Fedora 42 Aims To Enhance The Windows Subsystem For Linux Experience | Fedora | 2024-12-03 |
| Apple M4, More AMD Zen 5 Benchmarks & Linux Kernel Drama From November | Phoronix | 2024-12-01 |
| Red Hat & Microsoft Bringing RHEL To WSL | Red Hat | 2024-11-19 |
| Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver "RADV" Demonstrated On Windows | Radeon | 2024-10-16 |
| AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Excited Linux Users The Most In Q3 | Hardware | 2024-09-30 |
| Intel Compute Runtime Offers "Preview" Support For Lunar Lake | Intel | 2024-09-18 |
| Microsoft Further Improves D3D12 Video Acceleration In Mesa | Microsoft | 2024-08-30 |
| Microsoft Promotes Azure Linux 3.0 To General Availability | Microsoft | 2024-08-01 |
| Linux 6.11, Ryzen AI 300 Series, Open-Source NVIDIA Kernel Driver & Other July News | Phoronix | 2024-08-01 |
| OpenBSD Now Supports VA-API Video Acceleration | BSD | 2024-07-23 |
| Mesa 24.2-rc1 Released With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Improvements | Mesa | 2024-07-19 |
| Microsoft's WSL 2.3.11 Brings "Hundreds Of New Kernel Modules" & New Features | Microsoft | 2024-07-17 |
| JetBrains IntelliJ-Based IDEs Offer Preview Wayland Support | Wayland | 2024-07-10 |
| Microsoft's WSL2 Transitions To Linux 6.6 LTS Kernel | Microsoft | 2024-07-02 |
| Kernel Optimizations, XZ, AMD ZLUDA, NOVA, EPYC 4004 & Other H1'2024 Highlights | Phoronix | 2024-06-30 |
| Radeon Software For Linux 24.10.3 With ROCm 6.1.3 | Radeon | 2024-06-19 |
| AMD Announces ROCm 6.1.3 With Better Multi-GPU Support, Beta-Level WSL2 | AMD | 2024-06-19 |
| AMD ROCm 6.1.2 Released With Fixes & Optimizations | Radeon | 2024-06-04 |
| AMD Announces Radeon PRO W7900 Dual Slot For Workstations & Gen AI | Radeon | 2024-06-02 |
| NVIDIA Open Kernel Driver News, AMD EPYC 4004 & Linux 6.10 Made For A Fun May | Phoronix | 2024-06-01 |
| Microsoft Rolling Out New Windows Subsystem For Linux "WSL" Features For 2024 | Microsoft | 2024-05-30 |
| Ubuntu 24.10 To See More Polishing, NVIDIA Wayland By Default & New Welcome Wizard | Ubuntu | 2024-05-17 |
| XZ Backdoor, Nova Driver, Linux 6.9 Features & Ubuntu 24.04 Made For An Exciting April | Phoronix | 2024-05-01 |
| Microsoft Updates Cascadia Code: Its Open-Source Font For Developers | Microsoft | 2024-04-30 |
| Nova Driver, Linux 6.9 Features & Other Linux News From March | Phoronix | 2024-04-01 |
| Microsoft Helping Out In Making The Linux Kernel Language More Inclusive | Microsoft | 2024-03-30 |
| Microsoft Enables DNS Tunneling By Default For WSL - More Reliable Networking | Microsoft | 2024-03-22 |
| Microsoft Ending Support For Windows Subsystem For Android | Microsoft | 2024-03-05 |
| Intel Extension For PyTorch Now Officially Supports Arc A-Series Graphics | Intel | 2024-02-23 |
| Microsoft Continued Advancing WSL2, Mesa & Its In-House Linux Distro In 2023 | Microsoft | 2024-01-03 |
| systemd In 2023 Added Windows-Inspired "Blue Screen Of Death" & macOS-Inspired T.D.M. | systemd | 2024-01-02 |
| AMD CPU Use By Linux Gamers At ~70%, AMD openSIL, & AMD Laptops Topped 2023 | AMD | 2024-01-01 |
| Raspberry Pi 5 & New AMD Ryzen CPUs Excited Linux Readers The Most In 2023 | Phoronix | 2023-12-27 |
| Microsoft Enables OpenGL 4.6 Support Over Direct3D 12 | Mesa | 2023-11-19 |
| Microsoft Adds Enterprise Security Features To WSL | Microsoft | 2023-11-16 |
| Microsoft Achieves OpenGL 4.5 Atop Direct3D 12 With Mesa | Mesa | 2023-11-15 |
| Microsoft Gets OpenGL 4.4 Running Atop Direct3D 12 Using Mesa, OpenGL 4.5 Inbound | Microsoft | 2023-11-14 |
| Microsoft Releases A Big Update To Windows Subsystem For Linux, New Experimental Options | Microsoft | 2023-09-18 |
| Intel Compute Runtime 23.26.26690.22 Is A Big Update For Intel's OpenCL/L0 Stack | Intel | 2023-09-13 |
| JetBrains Enabling Wayland Support For IntelliJ-Based IDEs | Wayland | 2023-08-30 |
| Microsoft Adds Direct3D 12 Powered AV1 Video Encoding To Mesa | Microsoft | 2023-06-28 |
| WSL 1.3.10 Brings Experimental Memory Reclaim, Updated DXCore & Linux Kernel | Microsoft | 2023-06-14 |
| Microsoft's CBL-Mariner Linux Distribution Now Ships The AMD Graphics Driver | Microsoft | 2023-05-25 |
| Linux Features Loved By Microsoft Engineers Working On WSL2 | Microsoft | 2023-05-14 |
| Silly Open-Source Moves, AMD openSIL & Rust Happenings Made For An Interesting Month | Phoronix | 2023-04-30 |
| VA-API's Libva 2.18 Released With Windows WSL D3D12 Support, Optional Disabling DRI3 | Multimedia | 2023-03-28 |
| Intel Compute Runtime 22.53.25242.13 Released With OpenCL & Level Zero Enhancements | Intel | 2023-03-01 |
| Microsoft's CBL-Mariner Linux Shows Increasing HPC Interest | Microsoft | 2023-02-24 |
| Microsoft Hyper-V Nested Hypervisor Support Comes For Linux 6.3 | Virtualization | 2023-02-20 |
| Microsoft's CBL-Mariner Adds More Desktop Code, Enables WireGuard & Boots systemd-oomd | Microsoft | 2023-02-15 |
| Microsoft Officially Launches D3D12 GPU Video Acceleration For WSL Linux Use | Microsoft | 2023-02-13 |
| Microsoft's Dzn Mesa Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.1 | Microsoft | 2023-01-25 |
| Microsoft's "Dzn" Mesa Code Achieving 99.75%+ Vulkan 1.0 Conformance | Microsoft | 2023-01-20 |
| Microsoft Begins Providing DirectX Shader Compiler Linux Binaries | Microsoft | 2022-12-18 |
| AMD EPYC Genoa, Linux 6.1 & Rust Efforts Excited Linux Users In November | Phoronix | 2022-12-01 |
| Microsoft Promotes Windows Subsystem For Linux "WSL" To GA Status | Microsoft | 2022-11-22 |
| Intel Extension For TensorFlow Released - Provides Intel GPU Acceleration | Intel | 2022-10-28 |
| Microsoft Adds Mesa Support For Building Against The DirectX 12 Agility SDK | Microsoft | 2022-10-21 |
| Microsoft Promotes Its Open-Source Terminal To The Default For Windows 11 CLI Apps | Microsoft | 2022-10-18 |
| AMD Ryzen 7000 Series, Linux 6.0, MGLRU, Rust & IO_uring Made For An Exciting September | Phoronix | 2022-10-01 |
| Microsoft Adds AV1 Decode Support To Their Mesa D3D12 Driver | Microsoft | 2022-09-30 |
| Microsoft & Canonical Bring systemd To WSL | systemd | 2022-09-21 |
| Microsoft Lands HEVC Video Encode/Decode Within Mesa Using VA-API To Direct3D 12 | Mesa | 2022-09-15 |
| Microsoft Extends Mesa's D3D12 Video Acceleration To Support Video Engine Based Effects | Mesa | 2022-07-22 |
| Systemd Creator Lands At Microsoft | Microsoft | 2022-07-06 |
| Microsoft's "Dozen" Prepares For Vulkan 1.1 Support | Mesa | 2022-06-15 |
| Phoronix Turns 18 Years Old For Covering Linux Hardware | Phoronix | 2022-06-05 |
| Microsoft Ships Big Update To Their CBL-Mariner 2.0 Linux Distribution | Microsoft | 2022-06-05 |
| Microsoft Lands VA-API To Direct3D 12 H.264 Video Encode/Decode In Mesa | Microsoft | 2022-05-17 |
| "Ubuntu Preview" Makes It Easy To Try The Bleeding-Edge Ubuntu Experience On WSL | Ubuntu | 2022-05-17 |
| Mesa On Windows Continues Improving: Dzn Dynamic Rendering, WGL Kopper Lands | Mesa | 2022-04-22 |
| Linux 5.18 Preparations, AMD Servers, Spectre BHI & Other Highlights From March | Phoronix | 2022-04-02 |
| Steam Deck, Ryzen Servers, Apple M1 On Linux & Milan-X Excited Linux Users In Q1 | Phoronix | 2022-03-31 |
| "Dozen" Merged Into Mesa For Implementing Vulkan On Direct3D 12 | Mesa | 2022-03-25 |
| Microsoft Has Another Go At Their DirectX Linux Kernel Driver | Microsoft | 2022-03-02 |
| Steam Deck, GNOME 42 Advancements & AMD Linux Updates Excited Readers In February | Phoronix | 2022-03-01 |
| Oracle Linux 8 Now Available From The Microsoft Store | Oracle | 2022-02-06 |
| Microsoft Posts Updated "DXGKRNL" Linux Kernel Driver For WSL/WSA | Microsoft | 2022-02-05 |
| Microsoft's Mesa D3D12 Driver Now Allows OpenGL 4.2 | Mesa | 2022-02-04 |
| Mesa's "Dozen" Close To Providing Vulkan Over Direct3D 12 | Microsoft | 2022-02-03 |
| Intel Alder Lake & Linux Kernel Advancements Made For An Exciting January | Phoronix | 2022-02-01 |
| Microsoft's Direct3D 12 Code For Mesa Now Supports OpenGL Tessellation Functionality | Microsoft | 2022-01-26 |
| Microsoft Reworks The "DXGKRNL" Driver It Wants To Get Into The Linux Kernel | Microsoft | 2022-01-13 |
| Microsoft Lands D3D12 Compute Support In Mesa 22.0 | Microsoft | 2022-01-11 |
| This Year Microsoft Embraced eBPF, Debuted CBL-Mariner, Continued With WSL Features | Microsoft | 2021-12-31 |
| Ubuntu Had A Great Year In Switching To Wayland, Continued Commercial Success | Ubuntu | 2021-12-30 |
| Microsoft Releases Updated CBL-Mariner Linux Distribution | Microsoft | 2021-12-17 |
| Microsoft Releases Performance Tools For Linux/Android | Microsoft | 2021-12-08 |
| Microsoft Working On Direct3D 12 Video Acceleration For Mesa | Microsoft | 2021-11-22 |
| Proof-Of-Concept Work Brings systemd To Ubuntu WSL | Ubuntu | 2021-11-16 |
| HP To Begin Pre-Loading WSL2 For Windows On Upcoming HP Workstations | Microsoft | 2021-11-09 |
| Intel + Microsoft Bring oneAPI L0 & OpenCL To WSL2 With Open-Source Stack + DXGKRNL | Microsoft | 2021-11-04 |
| Ubuntu Continues Work On Flutter+Dart Written Firmware-Updater Utility | Ubuntu | 2021-11-03 |
| Microsoft Publishes WSL Preview Inside the Windows 11 Store | Microsoft | 2021-10-11 |
| Linux 5.15, AMD / Radeon Advancements, Intel SDSi Dominated Discussions This Month | Phoronix | 2021-10-01 |
| Microsoft Adds An EGL Implementation To Mesa For Windows | Mesa | 2021-09-15 |
| LE9, Canonical's Profits, Steam Deck, & Loongson 3A5000 Made For An Exciting July | Phoronix | 2021-08-01 |
| Intel Compute-Runtime 21.30.20482 Brings Initial WSL2 Support | Intel | 2021-07-30 |
| Microsoft's Internal Linux Distribution "CBL-Mariner" Continues Maturing | Microsoft | 2021-07-12 |
| Microsoft Announces Windows 11 - Benchmarks Against Linux To Begin Soon | Microsoft | 2021-06-24 |
| NVIDIA 470.76 WSL Driver Released | NVIDIA | 2021-06-04 |
| Mumblings Of A "Big New" Open-Source GPU Driver Coming... | Hardware | 2021-05-22 |
| Hypocrite Commits, Rocket Lake Benchmarks, Arch's New Installer Rallied April | Phoronix | 2021-05-01 |
| Microsoft Posts WSLg Preview - GUI App Support With Windows Subsystem For Linux | Microsoft | 2021-04-21 |
| 11 Features That Didn't Make It In 2020 For Linux 5.11 | Linux Kernel | 2021-01-02 |
| Ubuntu Had A Stellar 2020 From Ubuntu 20.04 LTS To Continued WSL, Cloud Popularity | Ubuntu | 2020-12-29 |
| 2020 Was Another Interesting Year For Microsoft Around Open-Source/Linux | Microsoft | 2020-12-28 |
| Microsoft Adds SPIR-V To DXIL Library In Mesa - With A Focus On WebGPU Support | Microsoft | 2020-12-22 |
| Mesa 21.0 Merges Initial Direct3D 12 Support For WSL | Mesa | 2020-12-16 |
| The AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Continue To Impress On Linux | AMD | 2020-12-09 |
| Microsoft Begins Landing Changes For Cross-Platform Support With Their Mesa D3D12 Code | Microsoft | 2020-12-02 |
| Mesa 21.0 Merges Direct3D 12 Gallium3D Driver | Microsoft | 2020-11-10 |
| It's Now Even Easier Setting Up Windows Subsystem For Linux On Windows 10 | Microsoft | 2020-10-29 |
| Microsoft Has A Large Presence At This Year's X.Org Conference | X.Org | 2020-09-17 |
| WSL2 Adding Support For Mounting Physical Disks, EXT4 Access And More From Windows | Microsoft | 2020-09-10 |
| Updated NVIDIA CUDA For WSL Brings Better Performance, PTX JIT | NVIDIA | 2020-09-03 |
| Microsoft Is Backporting WSL2 To Their Windows 10 2019 Releases | Microsoft | 2020-08-20 |
| Microsoft Doubles Their Commits To Mesa This Week | Microsoft | 2020-08-18 |
| OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 Hops Onto The Microsoft Store For WSL/WSL2 | Microsoft | 2020-07-09 |
| Raspberry Pi Vulkan, WSL2, Renoir, Linux 5.8 + PHP8 Was Exciting For June | Phoronix | 2020-07-01 |
| Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition Updated With WSL Support | Radeon | 2020-06-17 |
| NVIDIA, Intel Post New Windows 10 Graphics Drivers For WSL2 Linux App Support | Microsoft | 2020-06-17 |
| Kernel Advancements, Microsoft Linux News Kept Open-Source Fans Entertained In May | Phoronix | 2020-06-02 |
