The WSL naming is terrible and stems from a time where Microsoft was an evil monopoly empire, and used all kind of doublespeak regarding Linux, GPL, etc (see Ha

The WSL naming is terrible and stems from a time where Microsoft was an evil monopoly empire, and used all kind of doublespeak regarding Linux, GPL, etc (see Halloween documents). The name stems from its predecessor, Windows Services For Unix (SFU) [1]. Its bad enough Microsoft kept using the doublespeak naming scheme, please don't copy it. What this is, is Linux compatibility layer (running on MacOS). BSDs have (or used to have) such as well, at least FreeBSD used to. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX