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260 mentions on Hacker News by 222 people: 31 stories, 229 comments · first 2016-04-18 · latest 2026-10-10

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  1. Is it accurate to call this WSL3? WSL 2 was released in 2019, but WSL 2.0.0 was released in 2023 https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/releases/tag/2.0.0
    comment by Randomno · 2026-10-10 · in WSL3 Performance is about 5-60% faster than WSL2 depending on the workload
  2. …I wasn't even aware of the WSLc (WSL3) release. For others, the release info is available here: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/releases/tag/3.0.1 EDIT: stumbled on the previous HN post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49970507
    comment by armcat · 2026-10-10 · in WSL3 Performance is about 5-60% faster than WSL2 depending on the workload
  3. ▲ 1
    WSL 3.0.1
    story by conductor · 2026-09-29 · 0 comments
  4. ▲ 1
    My first open source feature request
    story by ramzxs · 2026-09-17 · 0 comments
  5. ▲ 2
    Bring back human
    story by sedatk · 2026-06-25 · 0 comments
  6. I wouldn't try this yet. I ran into problems with silent failing automount, e.g., https://github.com/microsoft/wsl/issues/40773
    comment by edallme · 2026-06-12 · in WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access
  7. There have been massive GitHub issue spams recently, including in Microsoft's WSL repository. https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/40028
    comment by g947o · 2026-03-31 · in Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry
  8. - https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues - https://github.com/isce-framework/isce2/issues - https://github.com/home-assistant/frontend/issues - https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-node/issues
    comment by humanlity · 2026-03-29 · in WSL's GitHub repository is being hit with a wave of Chinese spam issues
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    WSL's GitHub repository is being hit with a wave of Chinese spam issues
    story by networkcat · 2026-03-29 · 1 comment
  10. …Windows filesystem isn't slow per se, it's a slowness caused by "a thousand cuts" type of problem. https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425...
    comment by BrouteMinou · 2026-02-06 · in Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
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    Chinese localization Issue: command line arguments are translated
    story by throw_await · 2026-01-13 · 0 comments
  12. https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/discussions/10579
    comment by 9cb14c1ec0 · 2025-12-01 · in Isn't WSL2 just a VM?
  13. …have moderate success with enabling TRIM systemd service on the distro. Here is the tracking issue: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/12103 And if nothing works you can still manually optimize. https://superuser.com/questions/1827953/…
    comment by okanat · 2025-12-01 · in Isn't WSL2 just a VM?
  14. I mean inside WSL. E.g. running nested virtual inside WSL env. https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/11216#issuecomment-2... for details.
    comment by nwellinghoff · 2025-10-10 · in Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account
  15. …for Linux (WSL)” already that basically does the inverse of this (windows host, Linux VM). https://github.com/microsoft/WSL The feature is a windows subsystem (for running Linux).
    comment by charrondev · 2025-10-09 · in WinBoat: Windows apps on Linux with seamless integration
  16. …code is interacting with foreign APIs, like these API demos do. I think open-source software like https://github.com/microsoft/WSL is probably more representative of what modern C++ companies look like. Plenty of files that just interact…
    comment by jeroenhd · 2025-06-02 · in Writing your own C++ standard library part 2
  17. …me switch to a Mac. Here's how you can lose all your data - and Microsoft engineers won’t care: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/8992 https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/9830 https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/9049#issuecomm…
    comment by your_challenger · 2025-05-20 · in The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
  18. Do you believe the 600+ people with the same problem here: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197
    comment by ben-schaaf · 2025-05-20 · in The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
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    WSL(Windows Subsystem for Linux) is now open source
    story by counter2015 · 2025-05-20 · 2 comments
  20. …and getting SSL working. 1. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57580420/wsl-using-a-wsl... 2. https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/5118 3. https://github.com/microsoft/wslg/issues/22
    comment by nicoty · 2025-05-19 · in The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
  21. MIT License: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/blob/master/LICENSE
    comment by Totoradio · 2025-05-19 · in The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
  22. …maybe). However it’s not perfect, for example I hit this bug when trying to run node a few days ago https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/8219#issuecomment-10... and I don’t think they’re fixing bugs in WSL1 anymore
    comment by brewmarche · 2025-05-19 · in The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
  23. …doesn't handle pasting into Linux apps without introducing Windows CRs. I opened an issue for this https://github.com/microsoft/wslg/issues/1326 but it hasn't gotten a reply. Also, systemd is still pretty sketchy. It takes over 2 minutes…
    comment by nickjj · 2025-05-19 · in The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
  24. I would love if the bug(s) with working on the windows filesystem from within wsl could now be fixed. https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/discussions/9412#discussion...
    comment by blindstitch · 2025-05-19 · in The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
  25. MIT: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/blob/master/LICENSE
    comment by wging · 2025-05-19 · in The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
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    Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
    story by xnhbx · 2025-05-19 · 3 comments
  27. Proper link: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL
    comment by p_ing · 2025-05-19 · in Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open-source
  28. …I followed up with a clean, respectful comment asking for clarity or at least a roadmap signal: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/7973#issuecomment-27... Is there a way to push this without tripping the corporate auto-close bot?
    comment by mshcherbyna99 · 2025-04-07 · in F2FS in Microsoft's WSL2? Closed without any word
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    F2FS in Microsoft's WSL2? Closed without any word
    story by mshcherbyna99 · 2025-04-07 · 1 comment
  30. …this behaviour: "Zone.Identifier Files when downloading from Windows to WSL file structure" ( https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/7456 )
    comment by Y-bar · 2025-02-12 · in Automating the cleaning of macOS-specific ( ._ and .DS_Store) files on Eject
  31. …two, with many people asking to maintain both. [1] - State of WSL1 · microsoft/WSL · Discussion - https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/discussions/4022#discussion...
    comment by da-x · 2025-02-11 · in Linux as co-operative Windows process (2017)
  32. ▲ 8
    Microsoft/WSL pull requests taken over by malicious GH action
    story by Vogtinator · 2025-02-03 · 1 comment
  33. ▲ 4
    Microsoft's WSL PRs rewritten with pro-Palestine messages
    story by basemi · 2025-02-03 · 0 comments
  34. …desktops. I complained about that before because it screwed up my one-way latency measurements: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/6310 I solved that problem by RTFM and toggling some settings until I got the same accuracy as Linux:…
    comment by NavinF · 2024-11-23 · in Phased Array Microphone (2023)
  35. No, WSL 2 https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4901
    comment by rty32 · 2024-11-19 · in DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
  36. What measures have you taken to prevent things like this https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/7868
    comment by n_plus_1_acc · 2024-10-01 · in Launch HN: Quetzal (YC S24) – Stripe for Internationalization
  37. …would not call 1 order of magnitude performance penalty for accessing a local file system “little”: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197
    comment by Const-me · 2024-09-10 · in Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison
  38. It’s somewhat more complex than “NTFS is slow”. Here’s a good explanation: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425... I’ve benchmarked deleting files (around ~65,000 small node_modules sort of files) and it takes 40…
    comment by snazz · 2024-07-27 · in SQLite: 35% Faster Than the Filesystem
  39. …but always thought that most stuff such as LTE, webcam and surface connector wouldn't work [2]. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/11274#issuecomment-2... [2] https://github.com/linux-surface/surface-pro-x/issues/1#issu...
    comment by maxboone · 2024-07-16 · in A Review of Linux on Surface Pro 4
  40. …We WSL2 users found out the hard way and Microsoft refuses to offer a solution. Relevant issue: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/7456 Apologies for my post getting snipped, The latest iOS beta keeps randomly eating my text. Apple is…
    comment by eek2121 · 2024-07-03 · in The Origins of DS_store (2006)
  41. …to fix the current WSL virtualization on ARM chips. Something's that's been broken for years now: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/11274 (also see this as a warning if you are considering a Microsoft ARM device)
    comment by maxboone · 2024-05-21 · in New Arm-Powered Surface Pro and Surface Laptop Aim Directly at Apple Silicon Mac
  42. Beware of randomly truncated output https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4082
    comment by n_plus_1_acc · 2024-03-25 · in Mutt on Windows Without WSL
  43. …https://superuser.com/questions/1785697/systemd-in-wsl-on-wi... https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/9477 https://askubuntu.com/questions/1132230/unable-to-run-any-sy... People on the whole have no idea how this stuff w
    comment by lproven · 2024-02-28 · in GoboLinux
  44. …at open github issues, some of the most commented, each of which have 1-400+ comments: Jul 2022 https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/8529 "All WSL commands hang (including wsl --shutdown) but WSL is constantly using 30-40% CPU " May…
    comment by switch007 · 2024-02-28 · in VSCode + WSL makes Windows awesome for web development
  45. …network shares, etc working in MSYS2. I use the extra time waiting for WSL2 to get a coffee. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197
    comment by PennRobotics · 2024-02-22 · in Useful Uses of cat
  46. Better source: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425...
    comment by layer8 · 2024-01-03 · in Why Linux utilities tend to run poorly on Windows (2018)
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    WSL freeze seems fixed in 2.0.12
    story by timost · 2023-12-07 · 4 comments
  48. * Docker engine and not Docker Desktop in a VM. WSL2 works well after some configuration: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/6655#issuecomment-11... * Rancher Desktop. * Podman.
    comment by speedgoose · 2023-12-05 · in Ask HN: Best Docker open source alternative?
  49. Seems to more of a Defender issue than a WSL one, see https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/8995 After adding exclusions for the fsnotifier-wsl process and and both variants of the WSL distro path my disk performance was improved. Adding…
    comment by matt_heimer · 2023-12-01 · in Broadcom to Cut Almost 1,300 VMware Jobs in California After Takeover
  50. …can be a problem under WSL2, I ended up switching to Workstations after running into this issue: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197
    comment by InvertedRhodium · 2023-12-01 · in Broadcom to Cut Almost 1,300 VMware Jobs in California After Takeover