Since previous one(https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-console-bash-on-ubuntu-on-windo/suggestions/16759696-add-usb-device-support) was marked "complete", this one more clearly states support for libusb as in any usb device raw, rather than just storage mounting and serial pass-through.
My example need is Yubikey gpg-card.

There are many development tools unable to be ported to Windows due to their proprietary nature and others that though not proprietary have no interest in porting to Windows. For me specifically, it's being able to utilize dev tools such as VSCode, Sublime Text, Draft, Javalin, Bootsnap, OSQuery, and/or FSQL without downloading a third party X server that only does partial implementation. Libgl is specifically required to get GUI apps to run and doesn't currently exist. Please implement libgl and create an API for driver makers to use to enable use of these and other GUI dev tools.

A lot of tools written for Linux can be downloaded as 64-bit, but there are still a few that only 32-bit downloads are available for. I've tried using virtual machines, but that tends to not be feasibly in some projects.

I am stuck using a MAC at work because the terminal is far superior. with Linux/MAC I can open multiple tabs in the terminal, with windows WSL I have to open a bunch of windows. Sometimes I will has 7 or 8 tabs open at once... Adding tabs to the command terminal would be an excellent upgrade. I work with a bunch of DevOps and TechOps people and the vast majority would rather be using windows, but because of the lack of features with the command box they are stuck using MAC's

The idea is basically allowing the user to actually play with the files in a GUI environment with all the added perks of an explorer window.

Hello,
I want to use process my webcam stream via OpenCV. Apparently there is no support for webcams yet, as /dev/ is pretty empty.

´--- Opening /dev/video0...
stat: No such file or directory
´

I would love a right-click option in a folder to open the current folder in a WSL distro. right click to open in the folder C:\Users\account would open a terminal in /mnt/C/Users/account

Exposing bluetooth to the WSL is necessary to develop IoT without having ot fire up a Viertual Machine.

I'm very happy about Ubuntu / SUSE / Fedora options for WSL. But isn't Android based on Linux as well? It would be AMAZING to be able to test/run Android apps using WSL, as other Linux apps are able to run GUIs in Windows in the current version.

Originally posted on Github around a year ago: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/767

Not sure how feasible this is to implement, but I've found myself in a couple of situations where it would've come in quite useful.

Backup / Restore / Snapshot a WSL installation.

For development puproses it would be very nice to ba able to backup a WSL installtion and to resore it on the same or another(!) PC.

Provide a means of 'going back' (like a VMware snapshot) when a WSL installation became unstable, bloated, corrupt.

BTW is there a way to have more than one Ubuntu installations at the same time?

Best regards.

Window 10 is the best os ever and Kali Linux is the best app ever on windows 10.....but there are many errors in Kali Linux wsl Microsoft.....there are many app which are not working.....like airmon-ng....nmap......and many more.....please fix this guys.....

Add Posix ACL support to WSL and for drvfs mounts derive them from Windows ACL. It is possible to map Posix ACLs to Windows ACLs with some limitations. That would greatly enhance interoperability between windows applications and wsl applications. Using metadata to save posix permissions on drvfs mounts greatly reduces interoperability, since windows applications are not aware of posix permissions saved as metadata.

References:
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/usenix03/tech/freenix03/full_papers/gruenbacher/gruenbacher_html/main.html

http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/marius/draft-eriksen-nfsv4-acl-01.txt

I would like to be able to build the yocto project for embedded Linux natively which is possible currently. However I am unable to dd to /dev/sda to deploy it to the target because It is an external block device. Do we know if this will ever be supported?

Add Posix message queue support in WSL (Ubuntu). mq_open function is failing with error "Function not implemented"

It's great that I can mount file systems or USB devices through drvfs but these mounts don't persists when all Linux shells are closed.
How does one mount filesystems permanently, say through /etc/fstab ?
Surely it shouldn't be necessary to manually mount filesystems after the last Linux shell has been closed and a new is invoked.

I am attempting to run a bioinformatics pipeline using WSL. This pipeline relies on information within /proc/sys/fs/file-max.

On standard Linux distros, this file is a plain text buffer containing an integer. WSL does not appear to have this file.

[error] On machine: **omitted**, /proc/sys/fs/file-max does not exist.

Reproduce by running the following command on WSL and compare to a Linux system.

$ cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max

File does not exist.

A plain text buffer containing an integer should be present.