I'm trying to install a proggy to extract .zip files, but it downloaded as an .exe file and Mandrake doesn't seem to do anything with it. I don't know any command line stuff, so I'm pretty lost ...

Wait for it to download, extract it in the same way we did for the Fedora ZIP file, and then run the RHWSL.exe file to register RHEL on WSL. Run the command mentioned below to register for WSL2: ...

Using the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), you can launch Linux applications directly in a Windows 10 command prompt or PowerShell prompt.

Linux users who want to run Windows applications without switching operating systems have been able to do so for years with Wine, software that lets apps designed for Windows run on Unix-like systems.