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How to enable WSL2 in Win10
1. Open "Turn Windows Features On or Off"
Check "Windows Subsystem for Linux" & "Virtual Machine Platform"
Restart
2. Install "https://wslstorestorage.blob.core.windows.net/wslblob/wsl_update_x64.msi"
[Ref: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10#manual-installation-steps]
3. In cmd.exe or PowerShell: wsl --set-default-version 2
4. Install Linux distribution of choice from MS store or if to upgrade existing distro from WSL1 to WSL2:
List existing distros (cmd.exe): wsl --list
Say this shows Ubuntu (default)
To upgrade Ubuntu from WSL1 to WSL2:
wsl --set-version Ubuntu 2
This might take a lot of time
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