As mentioned by another reply, WSL2 is best to use. Note that you have to have Windows 10 ver. 2004 for a WSL2 installation.
Here are a couple links I found helpful. Microsoft's documentation is very good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fntjriRe48
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about

I also read along the way that if you are using another Hypervisor (such as Virtualbox) on the same machine that there may be some "hiccups". WSL uses Windows built-in Virtual Machine architecture since WSL is essentially a VM running a Linux distro (and you can run multiple distros under WSL, such as Suse, Ubuntu, Redhat, etc).

Hope this helps.
Peter


On 6/25/2021 1:12 PM, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote:
It has received some solid work, and is well documented, let me know if you need a hand in geting it running.

On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 9:53 PM Victor Odhner via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
Thanks. My more recent attempts seemed to be leaning towards WSL 2, though the other looked like a much simpler approach.  I hope I don’t have a dozen copies of "Ubuntu 20.04 LTS” cluttering together … 
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On 20210624, at 21:19, Aaron Jones via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:


Don’t use wsl 1 but use 2 if you can help it. 

On Jun 24, 2021, at 8:40 PM, Victor Odhner via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

I got a Windows 10 laptop to mesh with some (ech!) Microsoft in a project.

I’m learning very slowly, since (a) I retired from software in 2013 and (b) have been in recovery since then and (c) I really never stepped outside Linux except for company email.

So of course I’ll make Linux available on that computer if I can.
But I’m stuck.

Anyone know the steps?
  I selected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and selected WSL 1.
  I got a message saying it was installed, but I can’t find a way to start it up.
  I can’t find any control panel for it.

Any idea how to do this?
:)

Thanks,
Victor Odhner
 
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