![]() Microsoft ( 2022) said that Hyper-V was available only on Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise, and Education editions – not on Win10 Home. To install it, however, OmgUbuntu said my system would have to support Microsoft’s Hyper-V. OmgUbuntu ( 2022) stated that the updated version (WSL 2) used in Windows 11 was a major upgrade from WSL 1. But I would find that it didn’t do what I wanted. (See also e.g., GNU Utilities for Win32, circa 2003 GetGnuWin32, 2006 CoreUtils for Windows, 2005.) Certainly it appeared that WSL would require much less disk space: I saw estimates of ~2GB (e.g., SuperUser) as compared to a minimum of 23GiB for Cygwin (Tech Help Notes, 2022). My question was, which was the best way to enable Linux commands on Windows? Sobyte ( 2021) compared the built-in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) against Cygwin as well as the apparently older and more limited MinGW and MSYS, and concluded that WSL offered the best solution. ![]() ![]() ![]() I began this post as what I hoped would be a quick and simple summary of the process of enabling Windows 10 21H2 to run Linux commands, with notes on a few issues encountered along the way. ![]()
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