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I’ve found it much easier than Windows. Can never get power shell to do what I want. Eg the other day a google QuickStart guide required setting a .sh as executable. Couldn’t figure that out. Been trying to install WSL2 for a month+ now.

So now I’m just dual booting

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WSL2 will be available in the Windows 10 May 2020 update that should be released end of May.

I tried during lockdown WSL and was impressed by the ease of use and how fast it started but there are a few quirks.

It is not a full featured Linux OS at your disposal. I tried the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS for instance and systemd did not work preventing from starting services with systemd (there are some workarounds), I couldn't mount FUSE filesystems (lack of modules) preventing from mounting SSHFS, gocrypts volumes.

I don't know if these issues will be fixed in WSL2.

This is understandable, since binaries in WSL run directly on Windows, with no virtualization/emulation, except for Linux syscalls.

With WSL2, Linux runs in a VM, and behaves exactly as a Linux box, so Docker/systemd/FUSE run as expected.

The systemd problems remain in WSL2 as they same custom Microsoft init system from wsl1 is still used. There are workarounds however

I enabled slow ring insider preview and that seems to have broken both updates and windows store app installs/updates completely/permanently. Probably gonna have to nuke it. Bit annoying - need windows for Netflix and gaming, Linux for coding and browsing

> Been trying to install WSL2 for a month+ now.

WSL2 was/is not available yet for the stable branch of Windows, you need to use Windows Preview to access it. Try again in 1 - 2 months.

Slow ring insider preview. Basically broken all update functionality including App Store updates. Can’t even go back to non previewer

Oh well I guess I was warned it’s beta

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