Fedora Linux is now an official WSL distro



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We’re pleased to announce that one of the latest additions to the list of official WSL distros is Fedora Linux! The Fedora Project has taken advantage of WSL’s new tar-based architecture to produce WSL images beginning with Fedora 42.

Try it out​

To install it, run wsl –-install FedoraLinux-42 and then launch it with wsl –d FedoraLinux-42. You’ll be prompted for a username, and then you’ll be ready to go. By default, your user does not have a password and is part of the wheel group which allows you to use sudo to run commands that require elevated privileges.

Tour of Fedora 42​

If this is your first time using Fedora, the Fedora documentation is a good place to start as it includes guides, release notes, and directions for getting help if you encounter a problem.

Fedora uses the dnf package manager to install RPM packages. In addition to RPM packages, Fedora supports Flatpak for graphical applications. Note that flatpak is not currently included in the WSL image by default, so if you want to use Flatpaks you will need to install it with sudo dnf install flatpak. Next, follow the manual setup instructions for Flathub. After that, any application on Flathub is just a command away. For example, you could install Tally and count all the Fedora Linux releases.

The Fedora community works hard to ensure the newest stable versions of many popular projects are available. You’ll find the latest software development tools like GCC 15, LLVM 20, Golang 1.24, Ruby 3.4, PHP 8.4, Python 3.9 through the latest Python 3.14 alpha, and more.

Improvement and Feedback​

This is just the beginning for Fedora on WSL. For example, there is ongoing work to enable graphical applications to take advantage of hardware acceleration, and there are opportunities to improve the flatpak experience.

If you have any questions, ideas about making Fedora on WSL better, or want to get involved in the Fedora Project, please join us on Fedora’s Discourse or chat with us on Matrix.

Finally, if you run into a bug or if something doesn’t work as expected, please report it as a bug.

Thanks​

In addition to the thousands of contributors that make the Fedora Project run, this would not have been possible without the work of David Duncan, Neal Gompa, and Patrick Lang.


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Fedora Linux is now an official WSL distro

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Fedora Linux 42 is stable and well tested - (should be since it's now part of Red Hat - Now owned by IBM-) as the testbed for their commercial RHEL Enterprise server and cloud services.

However for most Windows users who aren't experienced with Linux - until it becomes easier not only to run command line programs from Linux, but a few decent desktop apps (or even a whole workstation GUI) then it's probably better to stick to using a full blown VM. WSL though in theory can be hugely efficient since it runs in its own tiny "OS space" and also avoids some of the restrictions of using HYPER-VM. I.E sound on Linux VM's can be a problem, dynamic USB re-direction not available and connecting devices other than USB drives is also a problem.

There are ways of running some GUI (i.e Windowed) apps from WSL but it's still a bit of a hit and miss thing - you need to set up some type of X-Server on the Windows system - something like VNC to connect to the WSL system with a full video screen. However the classic way of doing this was to use the X11 server system (In Linux the video server is separate from the terminal / CLI system) but X11 is being deprecated in favour of Wayland -- this also means that programs using or "cloning" RDP won't work either. The fact though that Ms now has Fedora on board should mean that there could be interesting developments in that area -- the next release of Fedora -- Rel 43 (Rawhide) is well into testing - works well on HYPER-V too !! so possinly an interesting few months to come for those who like to "have a go" with Linux.

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