Devs who like a Linux flavor to their server code get a gift from Redmond
Microsoft has made it official. Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 distributions are now supported on Windows Server 2022. The technology emerged in preview form last month and represented somewhat of an about-face from the Windows giant, whose employees had previously complained that while the tech was handy for desktop users, sticking it on a server might mean it gets used for things for which it wasn’t intended.
(And Windows Server absolutely had to have the bloated user interface of its desktop stablemate as well, right?)
News of the official support was imparted by Microsoft program manager Craig Loewen and it is indeed good for developers with a particular use case that requires them to fire up Linux on Windows Server 2022.
