WSL-DistroLauncher vs Console

WSL-DistroLauncher

Sample/reference launcher app for WSL distro Microsoft Store packages. (by Microsoft)

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Console

The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place! [Moved to: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal] (by Microsoft)

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WSL-DistroLauncher		Console
	Project
5	Mentions	1
1,639	Stars	73,526
1.3%	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	9.8
about 1 month ago	Latest Commit	about 3 years ago
C++	Language	C++
MIT License	License	MIT License

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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

WSL-DistroLauncher

Posts with mentions or reviews of WSL-DistroLauncher. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-17.

MX developers
1 project | /r/MXLinux | 26 Apr 2023

Any chance we can get something that can be used with WSL 2? Personally, I prefer to use MX on everything I can. WSL-DistroLauncher/README.md at master · microsoft/WSL-DistroLauncher · GitHub
Gentoo on WSL? Sure!
3 projects | /r/Gentoo | 17 Feb 2023

if you want to fancy it up with icons/title like the store distros, its not too bad to tweak the reference launcher, and feed it a stage 3 ( recompressed to .tar.gz since last time I checked last year, it didn't support .tar.xz)
Any self-hosting C++ Windows devs out there?
2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 23 Nov 2022

There isn’t a lot of guess work to pull this off Microsoft has documented the process here: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL-DistroLauncher
UK plans visa deal to tempt India into trade talks
1 project | /r/ukpolitics | 2 Jan 2022
Why would someone use Windows Subsystem for Linux?
3 projects | /r/linux | 15 Apr 2021

You can technically run any arbitrary distribution as WSL2, it's just not as simple as installing from an ISO. https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL-DistroLauncher

Console

Posts with mentions or reviews of Console. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-26.

AWESOME WINDOWS TOOLS
102 projects | dev.to | 26 Apr 2021

ColorTool - Set custom color schemes for the Windows Console with support for iTerm color schemes.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing WSL-DistroLauncher and Console you can also consider the following projects:

windows-fido-bridge - An OpenSSH SK middleware that allows you to use a FIDO/U2F security key (e.g. a YubiKey) to SSH into a remote server from WSL or Cygwin.

Windows-Terminal-Guide - Windows Terminal Guide

ArchWSL - ArchLinux based WSL Distribution. Supports multiple install.

emacs-wsl - Install and run Emacs with the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL 2) in Windows 10 or 11.

winapps - Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration.

sdcv

LxRunOffline - A full-featured utility for managing Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

scp-terminal - A terminal to navigate scp articles from https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/

selfhosted-gateway - Self-hosted Docker native tunneling to localhost. Expose local docker containers to the public Internet with a docker compose interface.

Vagrant - Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.

Windows Terminal - The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!

mpv - 🎥 Command line video player