WSL1 seemed great, until it wasn't. Then WSL2 came along, which is just a VM and works identical to VirtualBox et al. Still huge hassle to deal with various things that get confused when you run it in a "Linux-but-not-really-but-also-Windows" environment.

Better to just go straight to what you actually want, which seems to be a proper Linux distribution, everything just works as expected then.

So you install an launcher to run linux. Ditch the launcher i'd say.

WSL 1 was a piece of garbage.

WSL 2 is supposed to be a VM ... all problems solved ... until they aren't.

Hint: try to use normal USB stuff natively (Linux) in WSL 2 ...

WSL sounded great, until it didn’t.

It’s still not so easy to use, plus they ditched it anyway for VM solution.