May 2020 Windows upgrade is out and at least here in the UK, is available – in “Windows update” and I have just finished upgrading six PCs. Not a lot of really exciting stuff but the updates to the Windows WLS might be worth checking if you want to run Linux under Windows – personally I prefer not to – having seen just how far off the real Linux experience WLS really is.
For more information on the updates check directly with Microsoft.
To be honest I found my personal discovery of Stardock Fences” more interesting than any improvements I noticed from Microsoft – others may have differing opinions.
Anyway, Cortana improvements, better searches, renaming of virtual desktops, new DirectX 12 features – more – check the Microsoft site.
wsl is VERY good, just not for what you wanted to do, like running local services which could survive on reboot… honestly i didn’t check if now in v2 they work, and actually don’t plan to do such tests as they’re just academic: i want my “daemons” to stay wild and standalone on dedicated devices, not on one i could reboot often 🙂
i can now use all my “preciousssssssssssssssssssssssssssss” commands in windows, too, as i’m just already used to them and don’t need to learn powershell equivalents 🙂
full intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idW-an99TAM
new powertoys are out, too, very useful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8ipaGE9X1g
Just a heads up that you don’t want to be using WSL2 yet if you play with ‘little’ boards. No USB device support in this version (see section on GPU support).
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-faq
Thanks for that Kris – Antonio just pointed out I put WSL instead of WLS – fixed.