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Nitionyesterday at 8:10 PM4 repliesview on HN

It's a Linux subsystem for Windows so we'll call it Windows Subsystem For Linux.


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wvenableyesterday at 9:00 PM

For trademark safety, this is the correct approach. You can say "Blah for XXX" and that's fine but if you say "XXX blah" then you can get into trouble.

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ux266478yesterday at 9:39 PM

To solve this matter, I propose renaming it to WNL:

  WSL is not Linux
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cybercatgurrltoday at 12:15 AM

it’s a windows product therefore windows comes first in the name. at least that’s my recollection of the reason why i’ve seen before

colejohnson66yesterday at 8:54 PM

Wasn't that due to trademarks?