alt Hacker NewsWSL is a great feature and was a part of Windows 10.
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WSL1 seemed great, until it wasn't. Then WSL2 came along, which is just a VM and works identical to VirtualBox et al. Still huge hassle to deal with various things that get confused when you run it in a "Linux-but-not-really-but-also-Windows" environment.
Better to just go straight to what you actually want, which seems to be a proper Linux distribution, everything just works as expected then.
For all its problems, WSL is the single greatest power feature that Windows has ever had.
Debian itself is a superpower.
WSL 1 was a piece of garbage.
WSL 2 is supposed to be a VM ... all problems solved ... until they aren't.
Hint: try to use normal USB stuff natively (Linux) in WSL 2 ...
WSL sounded great, until it didn’t.
It’s still not so easy to use, plus they ditched it anyway for VM solution.
So you install an launcher to run linux. Ditch the launcher i'd say.