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it's the subsystem for running Linux. It's not actually Linux, and after enabling the subsystem you still have to actually get the Ubutntu image. That image is
by yakk0 10y ago
it's the subsystem for running Linux. It's not actually Linux, and after enabling the subsystem you still have to actually get the Ubutntu image. That image is the Linux part.
- Someone1234 10y agoWe all understand how it works. Repeating that is unconstructive. It is a bad name that is bad English. It was bad when it was "Windows Services for UNIX" too as an aside.
- JdeBP 10y agoNote that this subsystem never actually was "Windows Services for UNIX". That was another subsystem, another personality on top of the Windows NT kernel.
- Someone1234 10y agoPer context, "it" was the name of the thing. "It" (the name) was a bad name then and is a bad name now.