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Re:WSL for Development in Windows 10 Is the New Kool-Aid. St... by gpvos on Sunday September 06, 2020 @08:00AM (#24390769)
No, I'm still not using it because my Thinkpad (X1 Extreme 2nd) still doesn't offer the Windows 10 2004 update for installation, so I don't have WSL2, only WSL1. Does anyone here know what's up with that?
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Re:WSL for Development in Windows 10 Is the New Kool-Aid. St... by ray_z on Sunday September 06, 2020 @08:22AM (#24390866)
you don't need the 2004 update, if you have 1903 or newer, you can install it.

[https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/wsl-2-support-is-...]

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Re:WSL for Development in Windows 10 Is the New Kool-Aid. St... by gpvos on Sunday September 06, 2020 @08:33AM (#24390917)
Ah yes, just found that too. (It's only two weeks old; apparently I missed this piece of news.) That page is particularly unhelpful though, since I'm not getting that update in Windows Update either. I am now downloading it from https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB456... , a link I found in the comments at the bottom. Update: yup, got WSL2 working.
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Re:WSL for Development in Windows 10 Is the New Kool-Aid. St... by discordance on Sunday September 06, 2020 @08:08AM (#24390800)
I received the update to 2004 in the last week. Maybe check again?
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