It's confusing, but accurate. It's a subsystem of Windows ("Subsystem" is a well-defined term in Windows land, the win32 API is o its own subsystem as well). I

It's confusing, but accurate. It's a subsystem of Windows ("Subsystem" is a well-defined term in Windows land, the win32 API is o its own subsystem as well). I wish they had promoted the name lxss more, though. It's short, very googlable, and it's the internal name. The git repo name is even more ridiculous: https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows (after all, I had bash on windows for years already)