For over a year, we’ve been hearing about Clear Linux working on Windows WSL support to allow this performance-optimized Linux distribution to run in Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux. There is no official version yet, but at least there is now a third-party installer/script to set up such a setup.
Last we heard from the Intel side was to get permission through their corporate/legal procedures to get Clear Linux available through the Microsoft Store for WSL deployment. But in the meantime, an independent user has exploited the separate project “WSLDL” as a generic WSL installer to make Clear Linux work under this Linux binary compatibility layer for recent versions of Windows 10.
On WSL-enabled Windows systems, by downloading an installer, it is possible to easily run Clear Linux. Details via the ClearWSL project and this Clear Linux bug ticket.
It will be interesting to compare Clear Linux on WSL to examine its performance potential under Windows 10 with this optimized user space.
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