whereisk

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whereisk,

Ha! I thought iron Maiden’s mascot, Eddie - especially bottom right.

whereisk,

I’ve only installed it a couple of days ago in a vm and It’s pretty good but a couple of things are a bit startling if you’re coming from debian.

Eg. The lack of niceties like the ll alias. Or The config you have to go through to allow SSH Some utils I’m used to like broot refuse to install properly even though the apk exists. Fz-find doesn’t exist in the community repository.

But you can’t argue with apk - so much better than apt or how frugal it is re resources.

Looking forward to getting stuck into it a bit more.

whereisk,

That’s the point! It doesn’t come with bash as a shell, it comes with ash - even if you install bash and switch to it, bashrc is empty. It’s a bit bare bones, which is kind of charming, until it’s annoying. Haha!

whereisk,

a “flatulist (professional fartist)” hahahahahahaha, I’m dying.

I would never have thought I’d read these words anywhere, let alone Wikipedia.

whereisk,

Bloody hell mate… maybe he likes to rile you up? I mean, hopefully.

whereisk,

Sounds like fecal particulate matter everywhere… if flushing spreads it, can’t imagine what an air blower does.

whereisk, (edited )

Woosh…

The point is that since flushing alone creates aerosolised particles.

Spray wash, then blow dry, would probably multiply that.

I mean we know that hand dryers are terrible.

whereisk, (edited )

Lol.

“I’m sure all these people sacrificing goats to the gods haven’t seen their prayers answered all the time and are wrong - can’t you see how successful the Greeks and the Romans are, you idiot? /s” << you are this kind of person.

“Multiple countries” that “have a fixation” - therefore it can’t be - hahahaha!

Are you against scientific evidence?

I gave multiple sources, you gave arguments from incredulity, popularity, and your personal perception of reputation of whole countries - collectively.

whereisk,

No. I had all the links from the beginning.

whereisk,

You can dip your toes and have a basic Linux desktop to play with up and running in 10 minutes (less if you know what you are doing).

It will run in a virtual environment within windows (assuming you’re running 10 or 11).

So you don’t risk anything relating to disk partitioning.

And you can always start it when you have a few mins to play with it without closing down everything else you’re working on.

Not mint though. Ubuntu desktop which is I think is also pretty relaxed.

See here basic instructions

whereisk,

It’s quite possible you’re running wsl 1 - some.versions of windows 10 never upgraded that subsystem - not sure why.

But it might need wsl 2.

Open PowerShell as Administrator and run: wsl --set-default-version 2

That should upgrade the Virtual environment subsystem but not the ubuntu installation - you can delete it and start again.

Or you can try and upgrade it.

Run this in your PowerShell. wsl.exe -l -v

It should show you the Ubuntu install, the state, and the version.

It should say 1, under version, if my assumption is correct.

If so you need to upgrade it to 2 also.

Copy the exact Name - it might say Ubuntu-20.04 or just Ubuntu etc .

If it says “Running” and not Stopped terminate it like so: wsl -t Distro-Name

Then run the command below (again, replace name with your exact name).

wsl --set-version distro-name 2

Then try to start it from its shortcut again.

Let me know if that worked.

whereisk, (edited )

Wsl seems to be installed since it responded to the command to set it to version 2.

But it doesn’t sound like it ever installed Ubuntu properly since it shows no installed distributions.

Quick search shows that you need to enable the following windows features:

Virtual Machine Platform And Windows Hypervisor Platform

Are these enabled?

Edit:

Someone already answered the same thing but I didn’t see it before posting this. Well done and glad it’s working.

whereisk,

Nothing, love Mint. Just not as easy to install on WSL with a gui.

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