Microsoft is easing the requirement for WSL2. Instead of only working on Windows 10 2004 or higher, WSL also is now available for Windows 10 1903 and 1909 users.
Until today, Windows 10 users who wanted to work with the new Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2 needed to have the latest feature update for Windows: The Windows 10 May 2020 Update (a k a, Windows 10 2004). But on August 20, Microsoft made a surprise announcement: WSL2 has been backported to Windows 10 1903 and 1909, as well. Microsoft’s rollout of Windows 10 2004 has been slow. And a number of business users tend to skip the spring/H1 Windows 10 feature updates and focus on the fall/H2 ones, which are supported for longer and get more real-world testing.
