one-script-wsl2-systemd VS wsl-distrod

For my current attempt I installed a clean instance of Debian, installed Snap, then used this to allow Snap to work. After installing Snap core I installed Nextcloud through Snap. This allows me to connect to Nextcloud by visiting localhost from Windows. This was pretty easy compared to the other methods but I can't for the life of me figure out why I can't seem to access it through other devices on my network, or remotely through port forwarding.

Windows terminal settings has an option for setting the default terminal, your Ubuntu might be bugged, I fixed mine permanently (so far, been using for a month without issues) by reinstalling (clean install of ubuntu wsl) and applying the systemd activation script you could try using an elevated powershell then running "wsl --shutdown" then opening a non elevated instance of wsl ubuntu

Systemd works even in the non-store Windows 10 using https://github.com/nullpo-head/wsl-distrod

In case you're using an older version of WSL that doesn't support systemd, you can give Distrod a try.

It uses snapd (so in turn, systemd) so maybe that's what you missed. Up until the WSL update that brought systemd support I've been using distrod to have systemd in my WSL2 distros so it went all smoothly for me.

I use distrod to get a wsl instance of Arch running. It's nice to have (some) systemd functionality with it ;)

You don't need Docker Desktop to install Linux distros as your WSL2 systems. For Arch there's https://github.com/yuk7/ArchWSL and if you want systemd too then use this one instead https://github.com/nullpo-head/wsl-distrod/ (not specific to just Arch). Also any OCI compliant rootfs tarball goes really, you can use Docker or Podman to export images as tarballs & import them as WSL distros and vice versa. Just telling in case all you want is a distro and not a container engine like Docker running.

You can install the snap version if you have snap running (duh) so, I recommend you to either add systemd to your Ubuntu or make a new Ubuntu installation, both with this one: https://github.com/nullpo-head/wsl-distrod/.

Not sure on the specifics for why it won’t install for you, but I’d recommend trying a tool called distrod regardless. You can get Ubuntu Jammy with it and it makes the distro support systemd.

Install the resolvconf package and write the nameserver etc lines into /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/base file instead (or depending on your needs, use systemd by using a tool like Distrod and edit /etc/systemd/resolved.conf instead).

I used Distrod tool to install WSL that has extra features like systemd, auto-start and port forwarding ability.

https://github.com/nullpo-head/wsl-distrod I use this at work with Gentoo and it's worked fine.