--- title: The best part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows... description: The best part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux. WSL is finally easy to install—and offers automatic sound/graphics support. Microsoft... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-best-part-of-windows-11-is-a-revamped-windows-subsystem-for-linux-09ujt6xz9 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The best part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux | daily.dev og:description: The best part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux. WSL is finally easy to install—and offers automatic sound/graphics support. Microsoft... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-best-part-of-windows-11-is-a-revamped-windows-subsystem-for-linux-09ujt6xz9 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/09UJT6Xz9.png og:image:alt: The best part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The best part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux **[Changelog](https://daily.dev/sources/changelog)** · 5 min read · 15 upvotes · 5 comments ## Summary The best part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux. WSL is finally easy to install—and offers automatic sound/graphics support. Microsoft decided to go future-forward and build using the Wayland protocol rather than the increasingly elderly X11/xorg. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@ignusg** · 1 upvotes > I use WSL as my daily development driver, both professionally and in academia on top of an Arch distribution and I couldn’t be happier with it. > > It’s great for your typical front end development setup and having the ability to display graphs from something like python's plotly with WSLg is such a time saver. **@pwitham** · 0 upvotes > If you use Windows for development then it is well worth your time taking a look at the Linux sub-system in my opinion. --- Tags: [#infrastructure](https://daily.dev/tags/infrastructure), [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#windows](https://daily.dev/tags/windows) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-best-part-of-windows-11-is-a-revamped-windows-subsystem-for-linux-09ujt6xz9) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"The best part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-best-part-of-windows-11-is-a-revamped-windows-subsystem-for-linux-09ujt6xz9","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-best-part-of-windows-11-is-a-revamped-windows-subsystem-for-linux-09ujt6xz9"},"datePublished":"2021-10-07T15:00:36.141Z","dateModified":"2026-10-14T02:18:06.927Z","description":"The best part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux. 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