Top 8 PowerShell Wsl2 Projects

move-wsl

2 1,348 0.0 PowerShell

Easily move your WSL distros VHDX file to a new location.
wslcompact

1 615 3.1 PowerShell

Compacts the size of the ever-growing WSL vhdx images.

Project mention: WSL2 on Windows 11 - Virtual Disk vhdx is 200GB now , Inside Debian there is hardly few python codes. Is it due to this /mnt (these are windows drives mounted automatically by debian wsl) | /r/bashonubuntuonwindows | 2023-07-06

The community has also made a utility to get around this issue https://github.com/okibcn/wslcompact

InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
one-script-wsl2-systemd

2 232 0.0 PowerShell

The one-script variant of the systemd hack for WSL2
Stable-Diffusion-WSL2-Docker

1 99 5.8 PowerShell

One-click install for StabilityAI's Stable-Diffusion with AUTOMATIC1111's webui
wsl2-podman

1 31 0.0 PowerShell

Script for installing WSL2 + podman and podman-compose (or docker and docker-compose)
WSL2-port-forwarding-guide

1 18 0.0 PowerShell

Forwards Windows ports into WSL2 at startup (without logging-in)
wsl2_scripts

9 15 8.0 PowerShell

wsl ubuntu scripts for backing up and restoring instances

Project mention: Accidentally unregistered wsl2 distro | /r/wsl2 | 2023-05-24

Once you resolve this, check out these scripts for backing up and restoring your WSL2 instance.

WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
LLM-WSL2-Docker

1 13 3.6 PowerShell

One-click install for WizardLM-13B-Uncensored with oobabooga webui

Project mention: Automated installation of self-contained oobabooga environment | /r/LocalLLaMA | 2023-06-27

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

PowerShell Wsl2 related posts

Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.0 release
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4 projects | /r/devops | 26 Nov 2022
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1 project | /r/NextCloud | 19 Feb 2022
[Win10] Docker Desktop: How do I change the location where images and containers are stored?
1 project | /r/docker | 5 Jul 2021

Index

What are some of the best open-source Wsl2 projects in PowerShell? This list will help you:

	Project	Stars
1	move-wsl	1,348
2	wslcompact	615
3	one-script-wsl2-systemd	232
4	Stable-Diffusion-WSL2-Docker	99
5	wsl2-podman	31
6	WSL2-port-forwarding-guide	18
7	wsl2_scripts	15
8	LLM-WSL2-Docker	13