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    13 days ago

    I use Arch in WSL BTW. This is not a joke its actually quite nice

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      How do you get systemd to work properly? Maybe because I tried to follow MS’s “use your own distro” instructions instead of using something prepackaged?

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        Surprisingly just setting the systemd flag in WSL settings worked, though for a long time I simply didn’t use systemd.

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        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.