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Step-by-step, task-oriented guides — do this, in this order, to get this result.
A complete walkthrough shrinking a WSL2 distro's .vhdx file back down after deleting large amounts of data — the specific diskpart steps that actually reclaim the space Windows doesn't release automatically.
A complete walkthrough editing and debugging code that lives inside your WSL distro, using a Windows-installed VS Code, without ever copying files to the Windows side or fighting cross-filesystem performance.
A complete walkthrough exporting a WSL distro's entire state to a portable file, and restoring it later — on the same machine after a problem, or on an entirely different machine.
A complete walkthrough switching between WSL2's default NAT networking and mirrored networking mode — and how to verify which one actually solves your specific reachability problem.
A complete walkthrough getting Docker Desktop configured to use WSL2 as its backend, integrating specific distros, and verifying containers actually run using WSL2's real Linux kernel rather than a separate VM.
A complete walkthrough turning on systemd support in a WSL2 distro — configuration, the required restart, and verifying services actually manage correctly afterward.
A complete walkthrough installing and running a graphical Linux application directly on your Windows desktop — no separate X server setup, no remote desktop session, just a window that opens like any other.
A complete walkthrough getting an NVIDIA GPU working for CUDA-accelerated machine learning workloads inside WSL2 — driver setup, verification, and running an actual PyTorch or TensorFlow workload against it.
A complete walkthrough of both directions of file access — reaching Windows files from Linux, and Linux files from Windows — plus the performance-driven rule for deciding where a given project's files should actually live.
A complete walkthrough finding and actually reading the original source code behind major moments in computing history — Netscape's original browser, early Unix, and other codebases released or leaked into the historical record.