

I worked solely inside of my Windows files which were mounted into the Linux system. That’s not a worry for me since I never transferred. Speed when transferring between file systems is a little slow right now. You can open up Windows Terminal and use the Ubuntu dropdown:Īlternatively you can open up either cmd or Powershell and run: Once we’re installed, then we can check to be sure that version 2 was installed. Now we can go into the Windows Store to install it: Then I made sure that the default version I wanted for all new installs was version 2: I went into the Windows settings under Apps > Apps and Features and uninstalled Ubuntu: If your computer is having trouble running the update command (like my computer), then you may want to completely uninstall and reinstall your distro.

If you already had Ubuntu installed on WSL 1, you may have to completely uninstall and reinstall it.
