Re: WSL

On 4/5/22 00:14, Patrick Dupre wrote:, It's reasonably straightforward to install an unpackaged distribution, you just need a tarball of the distribution.  And lots of those are available for use with podman (or docker).  For example I can pull a container image and then save that to an archive:     podman pull fedora:35     podman save fedora:35 -o fedora35.tar Inside "fedora35.tar" is another tar archive, which is the base layer for the fedora:35 image.  Copy fedora35.tar to your Windows system, and extract it there.  Now you can import that and then run it:     wsl --import fedora35 c:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Packages\Fedora35 c:\Users\<user>\Downloads\fedora35\*.tar     wsl -d fedora35 You'll usually want to set a registry key to change the default user... (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Lxss\{ assigned GUID }) It's not click and run by any means, but it's feasible. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/use-custom-distro