The system Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) it is no longer just an element integrated into Windows 11, here the main novelties of the interface, but a stand-alone application whose arrival, among other things, also coincides with novelties, such as support for applications with a graphical interface and updates separated from those of Windows.
Before much more complex to use and bound to Windows updates, the system allowing you to load a Linux distribution allows you to launch Linux applications on the operating system Microsoft is now an application with its dedicated updates and a kernel updated to version 5.10.60.1 in addition to the aforementioned support for WSLg which concerns GUI applications.
The release in the form of an application of the WSL, here all the details, can be installed together with the integrated system, but has priority over the latter. In order to use the preview version application, which initiates a new way for Microsoft to distribute applications in preview, it is necessary to activate the optional “virtual machine platform” feature.