WSL Distro Manager
A quick way to manage your WSL instances with a GUI.
Install
This app is available on the Windows Store.
or
as a direct download from the Releases page.
or
winget install Bostrot.WSLManager (outdated version)
Build
Enable Flutter Desktop flutter config --enable-windows-desktop
Run with flutter run -d windows and build with flutter build windows
Why
WSL is great. It makes it very simple to spin up new workplaces with different systems for the project you need or just testing.
How to use
Fairly simple. Download the latest release from the releases Page and start wsl2distromanager.exe
What works
- Starting the program. YAY!
- List WSL
- Copy WSL
- Delete WSL
- Start WSL
- Rename WSL
- Create WSL
- Download WSL
- Select rootfs from storage
FAQ
- There won't be Linux support. Just WSL. (Get it? Its a joke.)
Stuff
This project is made with [Flutter](https://flutter.dev/docs) for Desktop :)
VS2022: either use Flutter master branch or set `_cmakeVisualStudioGeneratorIdentifier` in `flutter_tools/lib/src/windows/build_windows.dart` to `Visual Studio 17 2022` and rebuild with `flutter pub run test`. (as of https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/85922)
Sign package for Windows Store: flutter build windows && flutter pub run msix:create