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Windows 11 25H2 Local Account Workaround (Proper)

After installing Windows to a partition and then after the automatic reboot:

When the installation screen shows "Is this the right country or region?" press: Shift + F10

In the Command Prompt, type the following commands:

(change vboxuser to your username)

# it's typed on Powershell
wsl --install Debian --name debian --web-download --location "D:\WSL\debian" --no-launch
wsl -d debian

Enter new username and password

# now it's inside WSL2 bash

Various post-installation tasks for a Fedora 42 Workstation setup using GNOME 48, an Nvidia GPU, and Wayland session.

# Use lsblk to find Windows EFI partition, note that, 
# this case it's /dev/nvme0n1p1
lsblk
sudo nano /etc/default/grub

apt-get update -y

wget -qO- https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

source $HOME/.local/bin/env

alias pip='uv pip' && source ~/.bashrc

uv python install 3.12

	# Disable Fast Startup in Windows (CRITICAL for read-write access & NTFS health)
	# In Windows: Control Panel -> Power Options -> "Choose what the power buttons do"
	# -> "Change settings that are currently unavailable" -> (UN)check "Turn on fast startup".
	#
	# If not doing that (i.e., if Fast Startup is LEFT ON), please restart Windows (not just shutdown),
	# because in contrary, Windows shutdown with Fast Startup ON is not "clean"
	# and possibly dangerous to use partition in this state on another machine.
	# TL;DR: if Fast Startup is ON, then before accessing drives in Linux for read-write, use Restart from Windows.
	# Restarting from Windows to Linux is a safe alternative to get a clean filesystem state.
	# If Fast Startup is OFF, then a normal "Shut down" is also fine.

	# Without Hyper-V Enabled
	# Powershell (As Administrator)
	wsl --shutdown
	diskpart

	# Diskpart Compacting Operations
	select vdisk file="E:\LABS\DockerWSL\docker-desktop-data\ext4.vhdx"
	attach vdisk readonly
	compact vdisk
	detach vdisk

	ls -R -d */.git \| cut -d'.' -f1 \| xargs -P10 -I{} git -C {} pull

	# make sure to run it on the folder that have all those repositories that needs to be updated

	Get-ChildItem -Directory -Force -Recurse -Filter ".git" -Depth 1 \| ForEach-Object {$currentLocation = Get-Location; Set-Location -Path $_.Parent.FullName; Write-Host $_.Parent.FullName; git pull; Set-Location -Path $currentLocation}

	# make sure to run it on the folder that have all those repositories that needs to be updated