All of that is up to you. You first decide which flavor of Linux to install (I keep a clean arch dist and a messy Debian for dev) and to install software, you just use the appropriate package manager for that OS.

Here's the current list of distributions directly managed and provided by Microsoft (wsl --list --online): 

The following is a list of valid distributions that can be installed.
Install using 'wsl.exe --install <Distro>'.

NAME                            FRIENDLY NAME
Ubuntu                          Ubuntu
Debian                          Debian GNU/Linux
kali-linux                      Kali Linux Rolling
Ubuntu-18.04                    Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Ubuntu-20.04                    Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Ubuntu-22.04                    Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
Ubuntu-24.04                    Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
OracleLinux_7_9                 Oracle Linux 7.9
OracleLinux_8_7                 Oracle Linux 8.7
OracleLinux_9_1                 Oracle Linux 9.1
openSUSE-Leap-15.6              openSUSE Leap 15.6
SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-15-SP5    SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP5
SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-15-SP6    SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP6
openSUSE-Tumbleweed             openSUSE Tumbleweed

See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install for the basics. You can install multiple distros and there's a ton of user created distributions on github and elsewhere with preinstalled software if you're unfamiliar with Linux and don't know where to begin.

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in thread What's happening with the Cygwin project? by Intrepid

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