Ben Hillis
Ben Hillis
An install.tar.gz is not included in the repro. I agree the instructions could be a bit more clear about how to generate one, I'll get that resolved. The Powershell error...
@Hoverbear - if you'd like to submit a PR to make the documentation more clear with your findings that'd be helpful.
@oiaohm - Fair points, and we appreciate the feedback. I agree that a design where distributions do not need to write any Windows code would be ideal. It's something we've...
This is a good suggestion. The problem is that enabling the optional component requires admin and requires rebooting the machine. Doing this from a store app is problematic.
@julianxhokaxhiu - There is already a link that is displayed: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL-DistroLauncher/blob/e9a4504514223b27624eedaf4fdc8708cfdbaecd/DistroLauncher/messages.mc#L79
@levrik - if it doesn't work for you let me know and I can investigate. That's how I enable the subsystem on my test machines.
@levrik - This errors on the Microsoft Store are from a previous version of this sample that did not have proper error checking or error strings.
I like that idea a lot. If you are interested, I'd be happy to take pull requests.
User suggests that replacing system distro fixes the issue, so I suspect something in a recent WSLg update?
No plans to do this at this time, this source is still part of the Windows OS codebase and is likely to stay that way.