Microsoft announced the implementation of the ability to use the system manager systemd in Linux environments designed to run on Windows using the WSL subsystem. Support for systemd has reduced the requirements for distributions and brought the environment provided in WSL closer to that of running distributions on standard hardware.
Previously, for operation in WSL, distributions had to use the initialization handler provided by Microsoft, running under PID 1, which configured the infrastructure for interaction between Linux and Windows. Now, instead of that handler, the standard systemd can be used.
Source: opennet.ru
