Ubuntu is growing faster on Windows 11 than on native Linux PCs, says Canonical

I absolutely loathe WSL at work. Users with local non-AD connected systems (which bypass GPOs) install it, then start making highly insecure configurations that result in PII nightmares.

It’s a goddamned cancer riddled bastard child of Linux and Windows that needs the Ol’ Yeller treatment.

I’m guilty of using WSL to bypass what the IT department has done, but that’s partly due to our IT department being borderline useless. To prove my point to them one time, I took a project and compiled it in Windows normally, in a fresh Windows VM, and in WSL. A 20 second compile in WSL took 2 minutes on the Windows host.