WSL == Windows subsystem for Linux. I was very confused by this naming. Shouldn't it be "Linux subsystem for windows"? Then I realised, WSL was named so from a programmer perspective and LSW would be a user perspective.
@vu3rdd I think it's more to do with the fact that Microsoft doesn't want Linux to come before Windows.
@vu3rdd I used the term Linux to mean, Linux the kernel, because the Windows subsystem seem to be a syscall translation layer for the Linux kernel.