when fedora #13670
Description
The RHEL family tends to see a lot of use in production, with many subtle changes in provisioning and maintenance compared to Debian family (Ubuntu). The distinction is significant enough to cause breakages and challenges between local vs remote environments. So having Fedora and RHEL as WSL options will resolve a lot of DevOps complications.
As well, RHEL family tends to secure the OS out of the box, moreso than Debian family. Even just talking about the OS packages, Debian family hands users hundreds of CVE's by default. So there is security value to offering RHEL family options in more places. WSL and GitHub Actions have notable gaps there.
Frankly, I'd like to see all Linux distributions see better WSL support. Think, Alpine. toybox. Arch. Gentoo. So on and so forth. One day, BSD's would be lovely.
It is true that Docker and VM's offer such options. Dual booting. Or wiping Windows altogether. Using Macs. KMS. Cloud workstations. But each of those options comes with important drawbacks. As much as I'd like to say, "Just use a UNIX-like host," I do want to see improvement within Windows (Subsystem for Linux), to help my Windows brethren integrate more easily with various software stacks.