On Fri, 2023-01-13 at 08:32 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
When installing WSL on Windows, one has a choice to install a Linux distro. SLED15 and an earlier one are amongst the distros available. But no openSUSE distros are available at that level. They are available in the Store. But not direct in Windows at the command line.
I'm curious why SLED is the only one available directly. Political?
Tumbleweed is available via the store. Here's where it gets interesting: on a company managed Windows PC, they can control what you can get from the Store. In my company at least, Tumbleweed is not on the list. I bet this is the case for many corporate users. So they select a distro from those that are immediately available. For SUSE I guess it is good if an SLED is selected. I get that. But from a openSUSE perspective, the situation is less good.
tl;dr - The Store and the `--web-download` (and/or what you see with `--online`) methods are controlled by 2 different entities [the Microsoft partner portal vs. DistributionInfo.json from github.com/microsoft/wsl) but have slight overlap depending on the configuration of the .json file for any given github WSL release. Things on the Microsoft side w/ WSL delivery are a bit in flux, but should even out in the next few months. The transition from <1.0.0 to >=1.0.0 has had growing pains, but should end up a win overall. I can get into it more if you'd like (or maybe this[1] will shed more light), but there's only so much we can control at the moment and we're working on it :) I'm not sure what you're referring to w/ the SLED part of your comments or how that relates to what you'd see here[2]. If you care to elaborate, maybe we can clear that up. SLED _is_ an option when registering as part of firstboot for SLE WSL distro(s), that's recently new - but there's no "You're getting SLED" item in the Store. Also, if you share more info around output from `wsl --list --online` and/or `wsl --status` and/or `wsl --version`, that would be useful too. [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/pull/9286 [2]: https://apps.microsoft.com/store/search/SUSE?filteredCategories=Developer%20... -- ~ Scott Bradnick |- Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) Developer |-- Tumbleweed: |--- Dell Precision 5540 [NVIDIA Quadro T1000] (x86_64) |--- O-DROID H2+ [UHD Graphics 600] (x86_64) |--- IceWhale ZimaBoard 832 [Intel HD Graphics 500] (x86_64) |--- 2x Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.2 (aarch64) |--- 1x Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2 (aarch64) |--- WinBook TW100 (x86_64) https://keys.openpgp.org/ :: DBC5AA9A2D2BAEBC