sohmc

@ECHO OFF

REM Nautilus Window Fixer
REM Version 1.0
REM Michael Soh
REM
REM This script can be obtained from Michael Soh's gist:
REM https://gist.github.com/sohmc/5362b8f80f58abf6e96cec512af0a2be
REM
REM This script is licensed via the GNU GPL 3.0

sohmc

#!/bin/bash

if [[ -z $REPO ]]; then
    read -p "Please provide the hg clone URL: " REPO
fi

echo "Cloning repository ${REPO}..."
hg clone ${REPO} ./gitify
cd ./gitify

sohmc

This howto is a TL;DR version of how to do create multiple instances of the same Linux distribution in WSL.

Some reasons why you may want to do this:

• You are experimenting and want to keep your "production" version of WSL working while you make breaking changes.
• You want to have different git profiles. (I found VS Code with WSL didn't quite work well with multiple users in WSL. I was too lazy to look into this.)
• For the lulz?

Inspired by this out of date post by Hossein, this post combines instructions from two Microsoft documents:

• Import any Linux distribution to use with WSL
• Manually download Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) Distros

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