It’s because the WSL is confusing and doesn’t follow english naming conventions. “X subsystem for y” reads left to right as X is an adjective describing the sub

It’s because the WSL is confusing and doesn’t follow english naming conventions. “X subsystem for y” reads left to right as X is an adjective describing the subsystem, and for seems to indicate y is the platform that X subsystem is for. Instead it’s seemingly meant to be parsed inside-out with “subsystem for Linux” as one noun indicating a subsystem that runs Linux apps, and DOS as an adjective describing that noun. Maybe wsl did it to keep the windows brand first? Are there many other “windows subsystems for Y” out there and this is a Microsoft-universe term? I don’t know but it’s very strange.