# microsoft/WSL

> Windows Subsystem for Linux lets you run Linux command-line tools and applications directly on Windows without a virtual machine or dual boot. This repository hosts the WSL source code, documentation and issue tracker.

- Magnitude: 1.2 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 34,250 total · +2 stars measured 2026-10-29, 00:10–03:01 UTC, ≈ 9 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: DevOps & infrastructure · Language: C++ · License: MIT · Created: 2016-04-06 · Last push: 2026-10-29
- GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL · Homepage: https://wsl.dev/ · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/microsoft/WSL

## Useful for

- Run Linux tools and scripts from Windows command line without setting up a VM
- Build WSL from source and study its architecture
- Report a bug or propose an improvement for WSL

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-29 (UTC), 00:10–03:01: 34248 → 34250 stars (+2). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +9 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 1,874
- Issues and pull requests: 14,970
- Watchers: 590
- Average over the last week: 14 per day
- Usual pace: 15 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 1
- Latest release: 3.0.4 (2026-10-20)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-30 … 2026-10-29: 42, 38, 24, 14, 19, 17, 24, 16, 14, 15, 11, 13, 16, 23, 18, 13, 9, 10, 14, 14, 16, 15, 18, 15, 15, 22, 15, 16, 7, 2

## Magnitude by day, last 14 days

10-07 2.4, 10-08 2.1, 10-09 2.1, 10-10 1.8, 10-11 1.5, 10-12 1.6, 10-13 1.7, 10-23 1.8, 10-24 1.9, 10-25 1.8, 10-26 2.1, 10-27 1.7, 10-28 1.8, 10-29 1.2

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-29 03:04 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.