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by DeathArrow 1714 days ago
In the article it says clearly that you can run the distro of your choice using WSL.
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gertrunde 1714 days ago
The distro of your choice from the small pool that you are given to choose from.

It's not a completely unrestricted choice.

That pool includes Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE, Fedora and a few others if I remember correctly, although it may have expanded since.

I'm not sure how straightforward rolling your own is.

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Atomskun 1714 days ago
You have no idea what you are talking about. You can install any kind of distribution by copying over their rootfs. For example, I am running Void Linux on WSL2.
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int_19h 1713 days ago
The pool in question is open - anybody (not just Microsoft) can package and publish a distro there.

And for one-off use, there's wsl --import: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/use-custom-dist...

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withinboredom 1714 days ago
And building a custom one is easy. I have Gentoo running in WSL with no fuss.
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testermelon 1714 days ago
Can it run Linux From Scratch (LFS)? It seems like it could.
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shanoaice 1714 days ago
Yes sure it can, create a usable (chrootable) Linux From Scratch rootfs tarball and import it using wsl --import, and everything should be fine. Though don't forget to remove the kernels because WSL don't load them, instead WSL uses a custom kernel shipped with the Windows system.
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