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Azure Linux Desktop

Azure Linux "Desktop": A Build 2026 mashup of wslc, WinUI Reactor, and Azure Linux 4.0 A nifty Windows app that boots a full Linux desktop in a window, wiring together the wslc container API, WinUI Reactor, Azure Linux 4.0, .NET 10, with a pinch of nostalgia. I wanted to try out some of the cool stuff that came out of Microsoft Build 2026. Azure Linux "Desktop" is a small Windows app that boots a full Linux desktop in a window.

Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux

Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft’s first general-purpose Linux Microsoft’s in-house Linux, the distribution that grew out of CBL-Mariner, just hit public preview as a general-purpose cloud OS you can run on any Azure VM. Here is why that is a real step in Microsoft’s Linux journey, not just a version bump. Microsoft shipped Azure Linux 4.0 into public preview at Build 2026, and for the first time you can run it on any Azure virtual machine, not just as the host underneath Azure Kubernetes Service.

Grep this: Microsoft grafts (most) Linux commands onto Windows

Steve Ballmer’s darkest fear has come to pass: Linux has worked itself into the deepest innards of Microsoft Windows itself. At the company’s annual Build developer conference this week, Microsoft released coreutils, a Rust-built multi-call binary file for Windows that serves over 75 Unix commands directly in the Windows CMD and PowerShell command lines – including favorites such as cat, ls, grep, and head. They join Linux favorites curl and sudo which were earlier added to the Microsoft...

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