Align Windows 11 and 10 WSL installation#483
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Starting from Windows 10 2004 (May 2020 Update), WSL 2 is the default version of WSL. The instructions for installing WSL 2 are now the same for both Windows 10 and Windows 11. Adapted the instructions as such, to have a common installation process. This will: - make the setup easier for remaining Windows 10 users, - reduce the number of cases where Windows 11 users started following the Windows 10 instructions by mistake, - make it easier to maintain the instructions in the future, - make it easy to remove the Windows 10 instructions later. For this we now run `wsl --install` in the Windows Command Prompt (cmd) instead of Windows Terminal (wt, for Windows 11) or PowerShell (for Windows 10). For troubleshooting reasons, the instructions for Windows 10 < 2004 are kept in details, just in case. Adapted EN, FR, ES, PT.
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Hard for me to test myself but I gave this a read through and all seems ok!
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@Eschults Would you or anyone in your team want to have a look at this one? Main goal: simplify happy route of setup on Windows (11, and 10 for the remaining life of it). Would be great to merge before the weekend with a bunch of Europe time zone batches starting next Monday. |
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Great work @julesvanrie 🙌 |
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Starting from Windows 10 2004 (May 2020 Update), WSL 2 is the default version of WSL. The instructions for installing WSL 2 are now the same for both Windows 10 and Windows 11.
Adapted the instructions as such, to have a common installation process.
This will:
For this we now run
wsl --installin the Windows Command Prompt (cmd) instead of Windows Terminal (wt, for Windows 11) or PowerShell (for Windows 10).For troubleshooting reasons, the instructions for Windows 10 < 2004 are kept in details, just in case.
Adapted EN, FR, ES, PT.
Additionally, added a check that students have their proper account and are not on
root. (Quite common and painful to resolve if only discovered at the end.)