I am working with WSL a lot lately because I need some native UNIX tools (and emulators aren't good enough). I noticed that the speed difference when working with NPM/Yarn is incredible. I conducte...

After having read about the performance improvements when running Docker on WSL2, I have been waiting for the official release of Windows 10 that supports WSL2. I updated Windows and Docker and swi...

Somehow when I run code . inside the WSL, it simply doesn't do anything. If I which code it does return the VS Code path on windows, but still nothing happens.

I committed an existing Docker container to create a new image but the committed image was way too large (the original image was 3+ GB, and with just a few additional things installed in the contai...

I'm having an error when installing/updating any pip module in python3. Purging and reinstalling pip and every package I can thing of hasn't helped. Here's the error that I get in response to runni...

I am using Ubuntu on WSL2 (not on Docker Desktop). According to How to fix docker ‘Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?’ on Ubuntu, I ca...

WSL2 clock goes out of sync after resuming from sleep/hibernate. A workaround was shared on GitHub sudo hwclock -s to resync clock in WSL, but you have to do this every time you resume from ...

I have WSL installed as well as Docker Desktop. I tried to clean up docker as much as I could by running docker system prune -a docker volume rm $(docker volume ls -q -f dangling=true) Then...

I've just upgraded to Windows 10 Home May 2020, activated WSL2, and installed Docker Desktop. WSL2 must be installed in my system disk, which is a small SSD. I don't want to fill it with docker ima...

Here is my setup: Windows 10 PRO - build 19041.153 - insider program - slow ring Ubuntu 18.04LTS subsystem in WSL2 mode Docker for desktop 2.2.0.4 - enabled WSL2 integration with my Ubuntu subsyst...

As I know, docker doesn't support any command that change port mapping after make container. But this answer said that by changing the hostconfig.json file, I can change port mapping. How do I assi...

I Can't restart wsl2, the command wsl --shutdown and any other wsl command hangs forever. Also I found the service LxssManager in stopping status also hangs forever. How can I restart wsl ?

I'm using WSL2 on Windows 10. My dev stack is using a local webserver (localwp or wamp) on the host OS. I use WSL2 as the main terminal (SSH, Git, SASS, automation tools, ...). What I need is a way...

I added these lines in my WSL settings files C:\Users\reynadan\.wslconfig: [boot] command=bash /home/reynadan/scripts/startup.sh /etc/wsl.conf: [boot] command=bash /home/reynadan/scripts/startup.s...

I'm developing a rails app using WSL2/Ubuntu on my Windows 10 machine, which is great! The problem is I can't connect to my server from another computer in the same network. For further clar...

Running elasticsearch in win10 [wsl2] docker-desktop requires to increase mmap counts to 262144 through sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=262144 C:\Users\<username>>wsl -d docker-desktop <host...

I started a MongoDB server mongod.exe on my local Win11 machine and want to connect to it with pymongo from within WSL2 (from a Jupyter Notebook started in WSL2; ip address taken from ifconfig belo...

I am running a local AEM server in my Windows machine. The server is running on localhost:4502. I am using a Ubuntu distribution running in WSL 2 for my development. I want to access the loca...

I have installed WSL2 and deployed two machines on it: CentOS Ubuntu-20.04 It is possible to run multiple instances of the Ubuntu-20.04 instance on my win10 machine?

When moving from WSL1 to WSL2 many things change; apparently this applies to X11 forwarding as well. What steps do I need to make in order to use X11 forwarding with WSL2 on Windows 10 as I d...

How can I run graphical Linux desktop applications from the command line of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)? First, I installed WSL 2 following these steps on how to install Linux on Window...

I am a big fan of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and was totally psyched when they announced WSL2. However, the official Docs said that WSL2 isn't as performant as WSL1 when it comes to working ...

Ever since updating from WSL 1 to WSL 2 with the Windows 10 April 2020 update (and thereafter updating Ubuntu 18 to Ubuntu 20), I have not been able to get nodemon to hot reload when there are file...