fedora35-wsl

A sensible base fedora35 distro for wsl2.

Built from the fedora:35 container with the following additions:

a default wsl user with passwordless sudo access.
podman working out of the box.
wl-clipboard to facilitate copying/pasting to/from Windows via Wayland.
access to/from other distributions @ /mnt/wsl/instances
links to Windows folders in the home directory (Desktop, Documents, Pictures, etc)
the rpmfusion repository.
redhat-lsb-core, git, and zsh.

Requirements

Windows with WSL2.

Install

Download and extract the release zip.
Run the install.bat script.

NOTE: Windows 10 lacks the command directive in /etc/wsl.conf, which allows running commands on boot. For the bind mount feature, Windows 10 users must place the following in their ~/.zshrc file:

wsl-on-boot > ~/wsl-on-boot.log 2>&1

Build it yourself

You'll need docker or podman.

Check out the source code and run ./bin/release
Copy the zip from dist to windows, extract it, and run install.bat

Make your own custom distro

You can either:

Fork this repo and add your own modifications.
Pull this image into your own Dockerfile i.e.

FROM ghcr.io/kmmiles/fedora35-wsl

How it works

WSL2 distributions are really just containers. We build a container of our liking with docker, then export the rootfs as a tarball. Then this tarball can be imported as a WSL distribution with wsl.exe --import.