WSL (carrot) plus UEFI Secure Boot (stick) exist to lure people who were considering switching to Linux away from running it on bare hardware, so that Microsoft

WSL (carrot) plus UEFI Secure Boot (stick) exist to lure people who were considering switching to Linux away from running it on bare hardware, so that Microsoft can keep foisting spyware and advertising upon them. > MS has never positioned WSL for prod use, and instead cautions against using it for non-dev activities. Exactly, WSL is deliberately kept an inferior product so that people are discouraged from developing for Linux.