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Shell & TerminalHow-To July 12, 2026 4 min read

How to Evaluate a Modern Shell Without Breaking Your Workflow

Test Fish, Nushell, or another shell as an interactive tool first: inventory compatibility, isolate configuration, benchmark real tasks, keep a recovery shell.

#howto#nushell#fish

WSLHow-To July 12, 2026 4 min read

WSL Import-in-Place: Registering an Existing ext4.vhdx Without Repacking It

When wsl --import-in-place is the right migration tool, how it differs from a tar import, and how to avoid registering your only copy of the disk.

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WSLHow-To July 11, 2026 5 min read

How to Back Up and Restore a WSL Distro

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 one.

#howto#wsl2#backup