This is the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL, WSL2, WSLg) Subreddit where you can get help installing, running or using the Linux on Windows features in Windows 10.

I use wsl2 at work myself, I hate so many windows feature though but alas play games and hate dual booting. Just a rant but in windows you Cant even move the Taskbar anymore without downloading …

Sep 26, 2022 · How much disk space does wsl2 use, is a separate partition automatically created for it or its part of the C drive?

Jul 15, 2020 · 14 votes, 14 comments. G'day everyone, I have been struggling for the past 2 days to try and get audio working through my WSL2 install, and though…

Feb 18, 2025 · Since you're using WSL2, you should have Docker Desktop for Windows installed. If it's not installed, install it For the WSL integration, Open Docker Desktop, Go to Settings → Resources …

For the most part, this tutorial is pretty good But the tutorial has this one line "the ‘auth-ip-acl=127.0.0.1’ parameter needs to use the IP from the WSL instance though (‘ip a’ on the WSL command line to get …

Mar 27, 2023 · Hi, I want to use WSL2 with IntelliJ to do Java programming. What are the steps to do this? I've already installed WSL2 so that is done.

Feb 21, 2025 · I am trying to run Ollama on WSL2 (Ubuntu 22.04) with GPU acceleration (CUDA), but it still heavily relies on CPU instead of utilizing only the NVIDIA GPU. System Details:

Currently I use windows 11 with WSL2 and Ubuntu in it. My computer is pretty powerful, e.g. it has 32 gb of DDR5 ram, so it can manage the load, but I sometimes wonder about wasting the resources …

Oct 24, 2020 · My confusion came from firewall issues with WSL-2. What I have found is: Services listening on ports in WSL-2 are accesible from the host machine as localhost:<port> WSL-2 ports are …