WSL - Microsoft Linux

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  • azurelinux

    Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances

  • glazewm

    GlazeWM is a tiling window manager for Windows inspired by i3 and Polybar.

  • Microsoft I3WM

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • WSL2-Linux-Kernel

    The source for the Linux kernel used in Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2)

  • It uses a customized version of the Linux kernel (repo) that integrates with the host Windows OS. You can build any distro on top of that kernel, as people have done with (of course) Arch. The distro isn't any less "real" than a distro that it run on QEMU (and with a level 1 hypervisor, all systems that uses one are technically virtualized already).

  • ArchWSL

    ArchLinux based WSL Distribution. Supports multiple install.

  • It uses a customized version of the Linux kernel (repo) that integrates with the host Windows OS. You can build any distro on top of that kernel, as people have done with (of course) Arch. The distro isn't any less "real" than a distro that it run on QEMU (and with a level 1 hypervisor, all systems that uses one are technically virtualized already).

  • PowerToys

    Windows system utilities to maximize productivity

  • FancyZones from Microsoft's PowerToys (FOSS btw) is the solution aimed at power users who want something beyond Win11's default tiling system (which came out after FancyZones).

  • csharplang

    The official repo for the design of the C# programming language

  • That (discriminated unions) has actually been an ongoing discussion for year. It's still in the works, with a working group (notes) in the C# language design team hammering out some proposals for it. I doubt we'll see it in C# 12, but C# 13 or 14 (new release every November, so Nov 2024/2025) doesn't seem too far off.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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