Did you know that symbolic links (or symlinks) created through Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) can’t be followed by Windows? That’s because symlinks on Linux are implemented differently than symlinks on Windows: on Windows, a symlink is an object, implemented and interpreted by the kernel. To summarize, Windows handles only symlinks that were created by Windows, using its standard tags, and fails to process WSL symlinks of the “LX symlink” type.