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The proper name of the technology is WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), and in fact we already have the tag which covers exactly same topic as and .

I think we should make both and synonyms for , with the following reasoning:

  • is an interim/informal term for , it was briefly used by Microsoft when the technology was first presented, but now it looks like Microsoft abandoned this name and settled with WSL
  • The same goes for , but there's one more important point: the questions tagged mostly have nothing to do with the Bash shell itself, they ask how to run this or that Linux program on Windows