The Windows Subsystem for Linux in the Microsoft Store is now generally available on Windows 10 and 11

November 22, 2022 Nov 22, 2022 11/22/22

Craig Loewen

Today the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in the Microsoft Store is dropping its “Preview” label and becomes generally available with our latest release! We are also making the Store version of WSL the default for new users who run wsl --install and easily upgradeable by running wsl --update for existing users. Using the Store version of...

Windows Terminal is now the Default in Windows 11

October 18, 2022 Oct 18, 2022 10/18/22

Kayla Cinnamon

The day has finally come! Windows Terminal is now the default command line experience on Windows 11 22H2! 🎉 This means that all command line applications will now automatically open in Windows Terminal. This blog post will go into how this setting is enabled, the journey of Windows Terminal along with its fan-favorite features, as well as ...

Systemd support is now available in WSL!

September 21, 2022 Sep 21, 2022 09/21/22

Craig Loewen

Systemd support is now available in WSL! The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) can now run systemd inside of your WSL distros, empowering you to do more with your Linux workflows on your Windows machine. This post will cover: For a summary, check out the video below: What is systemd? What can you do with it? From systemd.io : ...

Windows Terminal Preview 1.16 Release

September 13, 2022 Sep 13, 2022 09/13/22

Kayla Cinnamon

The Windows Terminal team is back with another release for you! This release introduces version 1.16 to Windows Terminal Preview and updates Windows Terminal to version 1.15 with these new features. As always, you can install Windows Terminal and Windows Terminal Preview from the Microsoft Store, from the GitHub releases page, or by using ...

Windows Package Manager 1.3

August 3, 2022 Aug 3, 2022 08/3/22

Demitrius Nelon

Today I get to announce Windows Package Manager 1.3 has been released. The team has been adding several enhancements to manifests to improve your package installation experience. We’ve enabled better package version reporting. A new setting allows verbose logs to be on by default. If you run winget --info the system architecture is now ...

Windows Terminal Preview 1.15 Release

July 6, 2022 Jul 6, 2022 07/6/22

Kayla Cinnamon

Welcome back to another Windows Terminal release! This release updates Windows Terminal to version 1.14 and includes all of the features from this previous blog post. Additionally, Windows Terminal Preview is getting an update to version 1.15 and will include all the features detailed here. As always, you can install Windows Terminal and ...

WSL 2 distros are now supported on Windows Server

June 21, 2022 Jun 21, 2022 06/21/22

Craig Loewen

WSL 2 distros are now supported on Windows Server You can now use Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2 type distros on Windows Server 2022! We’re excited to make this change so that now you can have the same modern WSL experience whether you use a Windows with Server or Desktop SKU. How to start using it We first talked about this change...

Windows Terminal Preview 1.14 Release

May 24, 2022 May 24, 2022 05/24/22

Kayla Cinnamon

It's Microsoft Build! We have a Windows Terminal Preview release for you focused on fixing bugs and improving quality. This release also migrates Windows Terminal to version 1.13, which contains the new features defined in this previous blog post. As always, you can install Windows Terminal Preview and Windows Terminal from the Microsoft Store...

Case Study: How many colors are too many colors for Windows Terminal?

May 4, 2022 May 4, 2022 05/4/22

lhecker

A group of users were trying to implement a simple, terminal-based video game and found the performance under Windows Terminal to be entirely unsuitable for such a task. The performance issue could be replicated by repeatedly drawing a "rainbow" and measuring how many frames per second (FPS) we can achieve. The one below has 20 distinct colors...

Windows Package Manager 1.2

March 4, 2022 Mar 4, 2022 03/4/22

Demitrius Nelon

We've been busy improving the Windows Package Manager. Today I have the pleasure of announcing the availability of Windows Package Manager 1.2. It has been released to the Microsoft Store as an automatic update to the "App Installer" this morning if you're running Windows 10 (1809+) or Windows 11. ARM64 Support We've been working to ...