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It's alright now, does what it needs to do. It's kind of a pain because of the weirdness of running as a pseudo-VM, but better than no Linux at all.
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Sorry, typo, I fixed it now. Pseudo-VM is what I meant.
it's funny that you used psuedo-vm; i've always wondered if i would have been able to recover the disk image was qcow instead of whatever wsl uses.