Backup / Restore / Snapshot a WSL installation.

For development puproses it would be very nice to ba able to backup a WSL installtion and to resore it on the same or another(!) PC.

Provide a means of 'going back' (like a VMware snapshot) when a WSL installation became unstable, bloated, corrupt.

BTW is there a way to have more than one Ubuntu installations at the same time?

Best regards.

Window 10 is the best os ever and Kali Linux is the best app ever on windows 10.....but there are many errors in Kali Linux wsl Microsoft.....there are many app which are not working.....like airmon-ng....nmap......and many more.....please fix this guys.....

Once you change properties in specific apps, the change you made　never coordinates with the default. And there is no means to reset it to the default without directly changing the registry.
I'd like to remove the property of PowerShell and reset it to the default.

There are some people who like light-yellow background with black text or light-green text with black background.

dev/shm appears to be using disk space as creating objects there decreases available space and IO speed is significantly limited.

sync chromium linux project error
daniel@DESKTOP-SNPN79O:/mnt/d/chromium_android/src# gclient sync --reset --with_branch_heads
Running depot tools as root is sad.

Syncing projects: 100% (108/108), done.
funning hooks: 14% ( 8/54) binutils
________ running '/usr/bin/python src/third_party/binutils/download.py' in '/mnt/d/chromium_android'
Failed to fetch file gs://chromium-binutils/5230f6066998df2f4d61d5fa586152ab20cca300 for /mnt/d/chromium_android/src/third_party/binutils/Linux_x64/binutils.tar.bz2. [Err: panic: failed to execve "/root/.vpython-root/9eab6c/bin/python": cannot allocate memory

Hello,
I want to use process my webcam stream via OpenCV. Apparently there is no support for webcams yet, as /dev/ is pretty empty.

´--- Opening /dev/video0...
stat: No such file or directory
´

Directory listings 'bible' and 'tests' for instance seem to have text background and proper text foreground colours switched https://twitter.com/windowsdev/status/979730837259411459. Text background colour should match background colour. Not very readable in current state.

Users with SSDs can face space problems when they install packages with debug info. While it is easy to just NTFS-compress the files in Windows proper, WSL files need to be hunted down and compressed, all in an "unsafe" manner. Windows should provide an interface in WSL to transparently compress files with NTFS facilities.

So you know how you can run "start myprogram" in the regular cmd.exe? Something like that for text based applications running in WSL. So if I wanted to download packages in a seperate window, I could run something like "start sudo apt get upgrade" straight from WSL. Also, an option to auto-terminate the window would be great.

Open command bash and windows closed after I hit enter. Any idea how to fix it?

A lot of tools written for Linux can be downloaded as 64-bit, but there are still a few that only 32-bit downloads are available for. I've tried using virtual machines, but that tends to not be feasibly in some projects.

Would be a great thing to be able to set the interior padding in Powershell (to something else than the default of 1 px).

Other people have talked about this before, for example see: https://superuser.com/questions/1123126/adding-padding-to-powershell-window-just-as-in-css

Add Posix message queue support in WSL (Ubuntu). mq_open function is failing with error "Function not implemented"

Is it possible to add a Command to Run ... Which brings Up Ubuntu GUI interface just Like GUI command available in MATLAB

It would be nice if I could apt install gnumeric.
Gnumeric is the only application I really miss on windows.

Packages like rsyslogd, should not by default attempt to do things that are unsupported in the system, like for example create directories in /proc, or attempt to set SO_TIMESTAMP on /dev/log.