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I Asked Canonical if Ubuntu on Windows Will Outgrow Native Installs as Rumored - It's a No

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There's some confusion about Ubuntu's popularity on Windows Subsystem for Linux, so I asked Canonical's Jon Seager directly.

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According to Canonical, the number of Ubuntu installations via WSL is now growing faster than native desktop installations. The statement was revealed by the trade magazine Windows Latest, which it found in an interview with Jon Seager, Vice President of Engineering at Canonical, which was published in the newsletter The Pragmatic Engineer in a few months ago. Seager explained that the growth in its own WSL user numbers is significantly higher t…

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Could it be related to AI? WSL Ubuntu installations are surging and will soon surpass Ubuntu desktop installations.

News extracted from HD Technology. Visit www.hd-tecnologia.com for the latest news. Ubuntu is growing strongly within Windows thanks to WSL, the Windows Subsystem for Linux. According to Jon Seager, Vice President of Canonical Engineering, the use of the Linux system using WSL grew much faster during the last year than Ubuntu Desktop. If the trend continues the same, there may be more users running Ubuntu on Windows than using Ubuntu as the main…

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Windows Central broke the news on Monday, August 17, 2026.
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