Microsoft Announce New WSL Features, Including GUI Settings App

Those using Ubuntu on Windows through the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) may be interested to know that ‘significant updates’ are on the way. In a blog post to recap things discussed as the recent Microsoft BUILD event the company’s senior product manager for the Windows developer platform Craig Loewen runs though what’s coming down the pipe for WSL users. Several experimental WSL features Microsoft announced last year have started to make their way to stable/default builds. Among them, automatically releasing stored memory in WSL back to Windows. Device with limited memory will benefit most from this, but so too
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