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I also found the phrasing of this to be ambiguous. Windows (subsystem for Linux) has a Windows host running Linux Or (Windows subsystem) for Linux has Wind

I also found the phrasing of this to be ambiguous. Windows (subsystem for Linux) has a Windows host running Linux Or (Windows subsystem) for Linux has Windows running on a Linux host They've been using this phrasing since the OS/2 and POSIX subsystem days and it was also confusing then Quarterdeck did it right with Desqview/X by just renaming their WIN16 subsystem as winx. Then you would see "desqview winx" and know that it's windows running on desqview and not the other way around. IBM also got it right: OS/2 Windows VDM. I know it's running on OS/2. But Microsoft has been running with this phrasing since literally Windows NT and it's always been confusing.

kgwxd 6y ago
Wasn't it originally something like "Linux Subsystem for Windows" and there was some legal problem with the word "Linux" being first?
- kristopolous 6y ago
  Apparently people have used the words swapped to mean the same thing. It's bad. Microsoft releasing something to run windows software on Linux, maybe for some exorbitant fee and only on say, the commercial versions of RHEL to undercut Wine progress, not only doesn't seem out of the question but also a reasonable defensive strategy and something I totally missed the announcement of. It's not like I'm a tech reporter, I go into my work for a couple weeks missing everything pretty often