Maybe WSL did it better all along.

If you use Windows today and type ls, cat, grep, or awk in a terminal, there is a good chance something useful will happen. That was not always true. For most of the history of personal computing, ...

As well as Coreutils, the Build 2026 developer conference also saw Microsoft announce WSL containers CLI and API to deploy Linux containers on Windows, a new framework for autonomous agents with open ...

Microsoft announced today at its Build 2026 developer conference the release of Coreutils for Windows, bringing many commonly used Linux command-line utilities to Windows as native applications. The ...

Microsoft has released Coreutils for Windows, allowing a stack of familiar "Linux-like" command-line utilities to run ...

If reinstalling software feels repetitive, these tools have some ideas.