They claim it is for RPi Pico development. https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=301011 Retards like this are the problem: >Also Microsoft seem to have a company wide direction towards supporting Linux systems in a sane, sensible and non-evil way. That's something we should praise them for. The bash shell extension for Windows 10 is an incredibly useful tool. Powershell is an open source replacement for the cmd line and arcane bat files.