wsl-distrod
Distrod is a meta-distro for WSL 2 which installs Ubuntu, Arch, Debian, Gentoo, etc. with systemd in a minute for you. Distrod also has built-in auto-start feature on Windows startup and port forwarding ability. (by nullpo-head)
move-wsl
Easily move your WSL distros VHDX file to a new location. (by pxlrbt)
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
wsl-distrod
Posts with mentions or reviews of wsl-distrod.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-01.
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Arch in WSL
Systemd works even in the non-store Windows 10 using https://github.com/nullpo-head/wsl-distrod
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Should I be creating a WSL "install" for each project?
In case you're using an older version of WSL that doesn't support systemd, you can give Distrod a try.
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Losing everything due to WSL corruption?
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.
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wsl-archlinux-manager: An efficient & easy strategy to install and manage Arch Linux instances on WSL.
I use distrod to get a wsl instance of Arch running. It's nice to have (some) systemd functionality with it ;)
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I finally got arch linux working on windows 11(WSL2) By using docker.
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.
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How to install robo3t on Ubuntu WSL, Windows 11
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/.
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Cannot install WSL UBUNTU 22 in windows 10
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.
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WSL2 with no network connectivity
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).
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Install minikube with podman and CRI-O on wsl2 / Windows 11
I used Distrod tool to install WSL that has extra features like systemd, auto-start and port forwarding ability.
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Now you can even replace systemd with Emacs
https://github.com/nullpo-head/wsl-distrod I use this at work with Gentoo and it's worked fine.
move-wsl
Posts with mentions or reviews of move-wsl.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-23.
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[LTT] This is NOT going Well… Linux Gaming Challenge Pt.2 -
Just means you didn't have to use github-distributed solutions for any of your Windows issues (like, for example, moving wsl to another drive, or backing up/restoring docker volumes (surprise, surprise, windows will happily run .sh files too))
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[Win10] Docker Desktop: How do I change the location where images and containers are stored?
You have to move vhdx image from docker-desktop and docker-desktop-data https://github.com/pxlrbt/move-wsl
What are some alternatives?
When comparing wsl-distrod and move-wsl you can also consider the following projects:
distrobox - Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Mirror available at: https://gitlab.com/89luca89/distrobox
WSL2-port-forwarding-guide - Forwards Windows ports into WSL2 at startup (without logging-in)
genie - A quick way into a systemd "bottle" for WSL
one-script-wsl2-systemd - The one-script variant of the systemd hack for WSL2
easyWSL - Create WSL distros based on Docker Images.
libratbag - A DBus daemon to configure input devices, mainly high-end and gaming mice
ArchWSL - ArchLinux based WSL Distribution. Supports multiple install.
goxlr-on-linux - Documentation and scripts to make the GoXLR and GoXLR Mini useful on Linux.
WSL2-Linux-Kernel - The source for the Linux kernel used in Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2)
com.obsproject.Studio - This repository is no longer used to build OBS. Issues should be reported at https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio
arch_linux_wsl2 - Installation instructions for Arch Linux in WSL2
mpv - 🎥 Command line video player
wsl-distrod vs distrobox
move-wsl vs WSL2-port-forwarding-guide
wsl-distrod vs genie
move-wsl vs one-script-wsl2-systemd
wsl-distrod vs easyWSL
move-wsl vs libratbag
wsl-distrod vs ArchWSL
move-wsl vs goxlr-on-linux
wsl-distrod vs WSL2-Linux-Kernel
move-wsl vs com.obsproject.Studio
wsl-distrod vs arch_linux_wsl2
move-wsl vs mpv