Upgrading Debian WSL

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  • 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.

  • Btw the current Debian stable is version 11 (Bullseye) whereas the 10 (Buster) you're using is the previous version, where Ubuntu 20.04 etc are based on. Also to have an easy time installing a WSL2 distro you can use the Distrod executable I mentioned which integrates systemd into the environment in a way that it works on WSL2 as well (double click, next, next kinda but in CLI installation process). Then export the WSL2 distro called Distrod which it installs as, import it with the name & at the location of your choosing (I got used to using a file path like X:\WSL\Distrod-Jammy\ext4.vhdx).

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