Open your PowerShell as an Administrator and run this command (you can find this command here in the official docs): dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux /all /norestart 2. Enabling WSL 2īefore running WSL 2 we have to enable WSL 1 first (if you already have set up WSL 1 you can go to step 2).

If you have everything set up for WSL 2 ( Virtual Machine feature enabled and Linux kernel update) and already a Linux distribution installed with WSL 1, you can go to step 8, where I show you how you can change the assigned version.

For ARM64 systems: Version 2004 or higher, with Build 19041 or higher.

For 圆4 systems: Version 1903 or higher, with Build 18362 or higher.

You can check your OS Build and System Type by going to Settings > System > About

(Optional) Check WSL version assigned to Linux distributions.Download the Linux kernel update package.Since mid-2020, the new WSL version 2 is available, which represents a fundamental revision of the underlying architecture and enables better performance and speed.

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