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8. Going Further with WSL 2

Hayden Barnes1  
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Columbus, GA, USA
 

Now that we have set up graphical user applications and started our own services at launch, we are ready to go a bit deeper into the things we can do with WSL, specifically WSL 2.

These steps require some familiarity with Linux in general, but if these are new to you, we will do our best to tell you what you need to know to make them work on WSL.

Running systemd

systemd is a lot of things. At its core, it is a set of tools between the kernel and your applications on Linux, to handle all the messy stuff in the middle. systemd is most known for its init system, which starts and ...

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