I have been using WSL1 for a long time now and have been extremely pleased with it. After setting up Cygwin/X server, I don’t have a need for running Linux in a VM anymore. With the new Windows update, WSL is changing to support GPUs and GUI applications, so I decided to upgrade my install to make use of these improvements once they are shipped. The upgrade path is easy: you can choose to configure a new WSL2 environment, or you can migrate your existing one. I decided to upgrade my install, since I had a lot of packages installed, and did not want to reinstall and configure them in a new environment again. First, I started by getting everything I have in my Ubuntu environment up to date: sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade Then in a windows command prompt, I updated my default WSL environment to version 2: wsl –set-default-version 2 WSL2 requires Virtual machine platform support, and if that is not enabled, you can easily enable it throu...
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