How can we identify WSL (windows subsystem for linux)

[hmaarrfk]

Your question:

I've seen most recently a few error reports with people trying to use GPU packages with Windows Subsystem for Linux.

• Confirmed: https://github.com/conda-forge/pytorch-cpu-feedstock/issues/317
• Likely: https://github.com/conda-forge/tensorflow-feedstock/issues/410

Basically, we are already pretty thin on maintainers that daily drive windows https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge/issues/599

it would be good if similar to ubuntu wsl would appear somewhere in the conda info

Though I'm not sure where it comes from.

[beckermr]

Those are virtual packages. We'd need a pr to conda to add a new one.

[beckermr]

Because the there is no plugin architecture across all our tools, we'd likely need prs against mamba, micro mamba and rattler too.

[beckermr]

There is also this cep. https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/78

That'd a vote plus getting tools to interface with it.