[aseipp]

A major use case I have for WSL2 requires systemd, full stop (it's critical for the package manager I use.) It's pretty painful not having it available, and this is really something that needs improvement IMO. To be fair, this could be fixed in the software too (to some extent, not fully but working) which would also be a solution. But I suspect this isn't the only problem people encounter. There's a lot people use modern Linux for.

In practice that hasn't been a roadblock for me, because VMWare Workstation 15.5 finally supports running on top of Hyper-V, so I can have both working at once. Moving everything to a single hypervisor API has some nice benefits...

[strictfp]

One possible solution to this is removing systemd from all distros. That way you won't need it for your package manager anymore.

[vetinari]

Yeah, and let's continue with removing Win32 from Windows. That way other folks do not need to bother with Wine anymore.

/s, obviously.

[stephenr]

A more realistic option is to abandon WSL as yet more crap from Microsoft.

[aseipp]

Please take the crybaby shit to Slashdot or something, man. It's not a good look.