Deploy WSL with a regular user account

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Scripts to simplify setting up a Windows developer box

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Deploy WSL with a regular user account #91

Open kousu opened 3 years ago

kousu commented 3 years ago

This matches the result you get when you deploy it interactively: when you run wsl you get the $ prompt. Before, running wsl would get you a # prompt, which may or may not have negative consequences on a dev machine.

The only difference from install distros from the Microsoft Store is that we set the sudo password for you.

Fixes #90.

ghost commented 3 years ago

All CLA requirements met.

kousu commented 3 years ago

This is a little awkward because each distro has three unique IDs:

the link (e.g. https://aka.ms/wsl-ubuntu-1804, https://aka.ms/wsl-debian-gnulinux)
the name used by WSL itself to key on each distro (e.g. "Ubuntu-18.04", "Debian")
the name of the DistroLauncher.exe (e.g. "ubuntu1804.exe", "debian.exe")

If you have ways to fix this up please suggest them.