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Windows 95 can now run modern Linux thanks to WSL, and yes, it actually works

XDA·Korbin Brown·29 days ago
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Published May 4, 2026, 12:30 PM EDT Korbin is a Linux system administrator who spends most of his time in a terminal figuring out how things actually work. Over the last decade he's written hundreds of articles about Linux configuration, troubleshooting weird problems, and using open-source tools in the real world. He also works a lot with Windows systems and networking, especially in mixed environments where things don't always behave the way the documentation says they should. Writing things down is how he makes sense of it all and hopefully saves someone else a few hours. Porting modern software to old hardware that shouldn't be able to run it is a fun way for hackers to challenge themselves. You may have seen the headlines about the person who got Doom to run on a pregnancy test , or Doom Eternal on the Gameboy Color , and other weird ports that just shouldn't work. But getting Windows 95 to run a full Linux subsystem may be the most impressive achievement so far.…

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