You can run Arch Linux in Windows now - here's how

Microsoft / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET In February, It's Foss News reported that a WSL image for Arch Linux was on its way, and as of now, it has become official -- Arch Linux is available. Windows Subsystem for Linux is a compatibility layer that allows the running of a full-blown Linux environment. Up until this point, the only images available for WSL have been Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora Remix, openSUSE, Kali Linux, and Pengwin. The addition of Arch delivers a rolling release distribution that should excite plenty of users, developers, and admins who want to finally try Arch. Also: New to Linux? Don't try these 7 distros (yet) This new addition comes by way of several Arch contributors, particularly Robin Candau, who is the official WSL Arch image maintainer. According to the official image site, "Images are built & released monthly (via GitLab CI schedule) and aim to provide the simplest but complete system to offer an outright Arch Linux experience with WSL (including systemd su ... Read full article.