jamesjuett
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1 year ago One thing that's slightly imprecise in what I originally said - it's not that Ubuntu 22.04 itself is incompatible, but that with it you'll end up with a newer version of gdb that is incompatible.
I'm not sure if we'll end up with many (or any?) students who can't upgrade to WSL 2. If they're on a very old laptop, can't update to a new enough windows version, or can't enable virtualization. I haven't met any students where that's the case.
The best approach is likely to:
- Require WSL 2 in the tutorials (and add the check that
wsl -l -vrun from PowerShell shows version 2). - Add instructions for upgrading from WSL 1 to WSL 2. These should probably be in a separate document that we can link to, so that they don't confuse people working through the normal setup tutorial.
- Handle any obscure cases where people are having difficulty getting WSL 2 in office hours.
awdeorio
WSL 1 and Ubuntu 22.04 are incompatible. This is from @jamesjuett :
The intractable VS code debugging issue with "failed to set controlling terminal" is solved (sort of)! The problem manifests when students have WSL 1 rather than WSL 2. There's an incompatibility with newer versions of Ubuntu (I think - I'm assuming that's why we're starting to see it this term but haven't before). Some details here: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/8356
The fix is to upgrade to WSL 2. There are two ways to do this.
We should add a sanity check and require this.