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Debian in WSL not Ubuntu (talepunk.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Maybe because I tried to follow MS's "use your own distro" instructions instead of using something prepackaged?

Not op, and I don't care about systemd, but...

When I've used anything I wanted to substantially modify, I've followed the "use your own distro" instructions. In the past I've done this because WSL had a strong assumption of exactly one copy of each distro, and I like to abuse it for more.

Overall, I've had a better time with the the "bring your own distro" instructions. But some of my experiences with WSL were before they even got the Windows Store installer working correctly.

More recently, I recall Windows Store being fine for stock Ubuntu and for stock Debian. But I didn't find the "bring your own distro" instructions to be much trouble, either. My perhaps faulty memory is that it took maybe ten minutes, last time I used them.