This is a really good illustration for why I hate using Microsoft products. They don't commit to one vision long-term. They build a bunch of competing visions, and all feel half-assed. From a user's perspective this means that if I want to perform some task I likely either have a clunky experience, or worse, I end up having to use multiple similar tools to do it.
Very bleh.
Reducing WSL, which can virtualize multiple Linux in parallel, including Linux GUI programs, use GPU and run Docker at near-native speed, to a mere prompt seems dishonest.
I wish they committed to implementing more of the POSIX standard instead. They only ever implemented an initial version, and then added tiny parts of it in incompatible ways.
Then Microsoft doubles down and introduces a better prompt called WSL - the Windows Subsystem for Linux because the Windows command prompt still sucks... and this is just a Ubuntu VM in Windows.
And now they implement Sudo?
Microsoft hasn't learned the first lesson of holes - when you find yourself in one, stop digging.