Tom installs and uses Edge DX to monitor his WSL Linux instance and explains how to access files from and to Windows systems.

You can access Linux and Windows files through Windows Explorer and WSL Linux shell windows. You can run Windows commands from Linux by simply appending ".exe" to them.

Linux Can Access Windows Files, but It's Not Ideal Technically, you can move files around in a Linux-Windows dual boot system, but it’s not optimal.

You can access Windows Subsystem for Linux files using Explorer on Windows 11/10. Open Explorer from WSL Terminal or launch the root from Explorer.

Microsoft also says it's investigating user reports of the latest Windows 10 2004 security patch breaking WSL 2.

Windows assigns a unique drive letter to each partition, and users can access those file systems through a file manager such as Windows Explorer or any other application.