Follow these steps to extract all your WhatsApp data, including messages, in a secure and comprehensive way.
This guide is intended to help you access your own data only. Unauthorized access to data that does not belong to you may violate privacy laws and terms of service. Use this guide responsibly.
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If you want to use Wayland in WSLg in a simpler setup, you can try the WSLg (Wayland) tutorial.
In this tutorial, we will setup GUI in WSL2. No additional software outside WSL (like VcXsrv or GWSL) is required. You will find this tutorial very similar to the one that replaces Xorg with Xvnc. Indeed, it's pretty much the same tutorial, with some few changes.
The key component we need to install is the desktop metapackage you want (GNOME, KDE, Xfce, Budgie, etc), and after that, replace the default Xorg by a script that calls Xwayland instead.
For this setup, I will use Ubuntu 24.04, and install GNOME Desktop. Unfortunately older versions of Ubuntu lack some fundamental things, so we cannot reproduce it in older versions (at least not fully). Since the key components aren't bound to Ubuntu or GNOME, you can use your favorite distro and GUI. Check the [Sample screenshot
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If you want a more complete experience and already tried the Xvnc tutorial, maybe you should try the WSLg (Xwayland) instead.
Warning
This is a work in progress tutorial. Things done here may break existing functionality, so be careful!
In this tutorial, we will install and use a full GNOME Desktop environment in WSL2, without any external software. The only requirement is a working WSLg installation. At the moment, the instructions are only for Ubuntu (20.04, 22.04 and 24.04) distros and GNOME, but you can request me to test other distros and desktop environments.
| [Unit] | |
| Wants=network-pre.target | |
| Before=network-pre.target shutdown.target | |
| [Service] | |
| User=root | |
| ExecStart=/bin/sh -ec '\ | |
| [ -x /usr/bin/wslinfo ] && [ "$(/usr/bin/wslinfo --networking-mode)" = "mirrored" ] || exit 0;\ | |
| echo "\ | |
| add chain ip nat WSLPREROUTING { type nat hook prerouting priority dstnat - 1; policy accept; };\ |
I frequently see discussions around which password manager to use. I personally use [KeePass][main]. This is an open source program that allows you to have control in your data. The database format is encrypted so as long as you keep your master password secure, the chance of someone getting access to your passwords is practically zero.
This document is just meant as a signpost to steer you in the right direction of how to set up KeePass across multiple operating systems and have your file synced in the cloud all while paying $0 and not having to set up a single server to do so.
You can skip this if you don't care
| @ECHO OFF | |
| echo "Starting installation 🚀" | |
| :: Driver Software | |
| winget install -e --id Nvidia.GeForceExperience | |
| winget install -e --id Logitech.GHUB | |
| winget install -e --id Corsair.iCUE.4 | |
| winget install -e --id Nvidia.Broadcast |
NOTE: If you want the ultimate Linux desktop experience, I highly recommend installing Linux as your main OS. I no longer use Windows (except in a VM) so I will not be maintaining this guide anymore.
Think Xfce looks dated? Want a conventional Ubuntu experience? This tutorial will guide you through installing Ubuntu's default desktop environment, GNOME.
GNOME is one of the more complex — and that means more difficult to run — desktop environments, so for years people couldn't figure [o
Go to the Privacy & Security configuration panel and clear all cached web content, then go to the advanced configuration panel - by entering about:config in the address bar - and change as follows:
browser.cache.disk.enable → false
browser.cache.disk.smart_size.enabled → false
browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl → false
browser.cache.offline.enable → false
