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LSW?
LSW Laboratory Safety Workshop
LSW Lamberg Sleep Well
LSW Land and Sea Warfare
LSW Lasik Surgery Watch
LSW Last Seen Wearing
LSW Least Significant Word
LSW Leeds Sculpture Workshop
LSW Left-Sided Weakness LSW Legendary Super Warriors
LSW Lego Star Wars
LSW Licensed Social Worker
LSW Light Ship Weight
LSW Light Support Weapon
LSW Lincoln Southwest
LSW London Standard Wording
LSW Long Suffering Wife
LSW Loudoun Symphonic Winds
LSW Lucas-Sargent-Wallace proposition
https://www.abbreviationfinder.org/acronyms/lsw.html
Heh, sorry. "WSL" is the "Windows Subsystem for Linux," which (in the opposite of the way it sounds like it should work) runs Linux on Windows, pretty close to baremetal. So the "LSW" would be the "Linux Subsystem for Windows," so to speak; a hypothetical way to run Windows on a Linux machine.