Useful Commands for Windows Subsystem for Linux

  • wsl -l -v – check current WSL version in use
  • wsl -–set-default-version 1 – set default WSL version. Currently 1 or 2.
  • wsl -–set-version Ubuntu-20.04 2 – convert WSL version to version 2 where Ubuntu-20.04 is the name of the distribution.