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Wsl projects on GitHub

Setup guides and tools for the Windows Subsystem for Linux and terminal workflows.

As of , the most-starred Wsl projects on GitHub are cc-switch (145.2K stars), terminal (105.2K stars) and unsloth (78.2K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 25 Wsl repositories with 505K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was cc-switch, with +415 stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+415

cc-switch

farion1231/cc-switch · ★ 145.2K

CC Switch is an all-in-one desktop manager that lets you switch API providers with one click for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Gemini CLI, Grok Build, OpenCode, OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, Pi and MiniMax Code, and also manage their MCP servers, Skills, and Prompts from a single place instead of hand-editing config files.

+308

xtool

xtool-org/xtool · ★ 11.9K

xtool is a cross-platform tool that replicates Xcode's core functionality, letting you build, sign, and install iOS apps written as SwiftPM packages from Linux, Windows (via WSL), or macOS.

+56

unsloth

unslothai/unsloth · ★ 78.2K

Unsloth is a local-first app for running and training LLMs, diffusion, TTS and embedding models on your own machine, including models like Qwen3.8, DeepSeek-V4, MiniMax-H3, Gemma 4 and FLUX.

+34

Genjustsu-Open-Source-Workflow

sirioberati/Genjustsu-Open-Source-Workflow · ★ 955

Genjustsu is an open-source workflow for replacing characters or objects in a video using colored depth maps, SAM 3 segmentation masks and optional face mesh tracking, then generating the replacement with Seedance through the Enhancor API. It runs a local web UI to prepare inputs, review masks, preview drafts, and export the result with the original audio restored.

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25 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · farion1231/cc-switch

    cc-switch

    CC Switch is an all-in-one desktop manager that lets you switch API providers with one click for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Gemini CLI, Grok Build, OpenCode, OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, Pi and MiniMax Code, and also manage their MCP servers, Skills, and Prompts from a single place instead of hand-editing config files.

    145.2K
  2. #2 · microsoft/terminal

    terminal

    This is the source code for Windows Terminal, a modern tab-based terminal app for Windows, plus the original Windows console host (conhost.exe) that powers classic command-line apps, both maintained in the same repo.

    105.2K
  3. #3 · unslothai/unsloth

    unsloth

    Unsloth is a local-first app for running and training LLMs, diffusion, TTS and embedding models on your own machine, including models like Qwen3.8, DeepSeek-V4, MiniMax-H3, Gemma 4 and FLUX.

    78.2K
  1. 4

    WindTerm

    32.5KkingToolbox/WindTerm · C

    WindTerm is a free professional SSH/Telnet/Serial/Shell/Sftp client and terminal built for DevOps, combining remote connections, a local shell and file transfer in one application.

  2. 5

    .tmux

    25.4Kgpakosz/.tmux · Shell

    Oh my tmux! is a self-contained, pretty, and versatile configuration file for tmux (the terminal multiplexer), giving it a Powerline-inspired theme and sane default bindings out of the box.

  3. 6

    nnn

    22.1Kjarun/nnn · C

    nnn (n3) is a terminal file manager built for speed and low resource use. The binary is typically around 100KB, it usually needs less than 3.5MB of resident memory, and it runs fine even with 8 colors.

  4. 7

    plandex

    15.7Kplandex-ai/plandex · Go

    Plandex is an open source AI coding agent that runs in the terminal. It plans and executes large coding tasks spanning many steps and dozens of files, built for real-world projects.

  5. 8

    xpipe

    14.6Kxpipe-io/xpipe

    XPipe is a connection hub that lets you access your entire server infrastructure (SSH hosts, Docker, Kubernetes, VMs, cloud servers, WSL, and more) from one local desktop app, without installing any agent on the remote systems.

  6. 9

    xtool

    11.9Kxtool-org/xtool · Swift

    xtool is a cross-platform tool that replicates Xcode's core functionality, letting you build, sign, and install iOS apps written as SwiftPM packages from Linux, Windows (via WSL), or macOS.

  7. 10

    WSL2-Linux-Kernel

    10.6Kmicrosoft/WSL2-Linux-Kernel · C

    This is the official source repository for the Linux kernel that powers WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux 2), including the kernel source code and configuration files used by Microsoft.

  8. 11

    magentic-ui

    10.1Kmicrosoft/magentic-ui · Python

    MagenticLite is a free, open-source agent application from Microsoft AI Frontiers that automates real work — web research, form filling, file management — across the browser and your local file system, built to run on small models.

  9. 12

    OrcaSlicer-bambulab

    7.2KFULU-Foundation/OrcaSlicer-bambulab · C++

    This is a fork of OrcaSlicer, the 3D-printing slicer, that restores full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers so you can print over the internet instead of being stuck with LAN-only mode.

  10. 13

    coreutils

    5.3Kmicrosoft/coreutils · Rust

    A Microsoft-maintained build of uutils/coreutils, findutils, and grep - the familiar Unix commands (ls, cp, cat, grep, find) packaged as a single native multi-call binary for Windows.

  11. 14

    peon-ping

    5.1KPeonPing/peon-ping · Shell

    peon-ping plays Warcraft III Peon voice lines and shows bold on-screen banners whenever your AI coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and others) finishes a task or needs your input, so you stop babysitting the terminal and losing focus.

  12. 15

    wslmanager

    4Kbostrot/wslmanager · Dart

    WSL Manager is a free, open source GUI for the Windows Subsystem for Linux: install, back up, move and configure distros without memorising wsl.exe flags. On macOS the same app also manages native Linux and macOS VMs.

  13. 16

    wsl-dashboard

    4Kowu/wsl-dashboard · Rust

    WSL Dashboard is a GUI manager for WSL built in Rust with a Slint UI, letting you install, start, stop, unregister, and configure your WSL distros from one place with a lightweight, low-memory footprint.

  14. 17

    WindowsDeveloperConfig

    3.2Kmicrosoft/WindowsDeveloperConfig · PowerShell

    A Microsoft repo with three opinionated PowerShell setups for configuring a Windows dev machine: a full dev-workstation installer, a WSL/Linux shell beautifier called WSL Comfort, and single-language toolchain installers.

  15. 18

    turnstone

    1.6Kturnstonelabs/turnstone · Python

    Turnstone is a self-hosted, local-first orchestration framework that gives LLMs real tools — shell, files, search, web, planning — and runs multi-turn agent conversations across your own cluster.

  16. 19

    Genjustsu-Open-Source-Workflow

    955sirioberati/Genjustsu-Open-Source-Workflow · Python

    Genjustsu is an open-source workflow for replacing characters or objects in a video using colored depth maps, SAM 3 segmentation masks and optional face mesh tracking, then generating the replacement with Seedance through the Enhancor API. It runs a local web UI to prepare inputs, review masks, preview drafts, and export the result with the original audio restored.

  17. 20

    openqodex

    729openqodex/openqodex · TypeScript

    OpenQodex is an open source AI code review tool for Claude Code and Codex that runs before you push: it scans only the lines you changed, then has a separate reviewer process check every scanner finding.

  18. 21

    solo

    641pg83/solo · C++

    SoLo is a C/C++ library that lets a single, fully static musl-linked Linux executable load the host's existing glibc-linked shared objects, such as GPU drivers, at runtime, instead of bundling a container, AppImage, or a second libc.

  19. 22

    EvoTrace

    292jinzijian/EvoTrace · Python

    EvoTrace mines the Claude Code and Codex coding-agent sessions already on your machine, finds the ones worth keeping, and compiles them into verified, reusable post-training assets: preference data, replayable coding tasks, RL environments, and execution-reward candidates.

  20. 23

    NPC-Forge

    269gioblu/NPC-Forge · Python

    NPC-Forge is an open-source neuro-symbolic framework for building conversational agents with distinct personalities, multi-turn context, sentiment analysis and tool-call support. Its agents run on the CPU without machine learning or LLMs.

  21. 24

    morloc

    219morloc-project/morloc · Rust

    Morloc is a strongly-typed, polyglot compiler: it composes functions written in different languages under one common type system and turns each module into a CLI, an API and an MCP server.

  22. 25

    lytlnyblOS

    116red-mutt/lytlnyblOS · C

    lytlnyblOS ('little nibble OS') is a small 32-bit operating system built from scratch to teach beginners OS development practically. You write every line of it yourself while following the companion book.

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