Welcome to WSL Manager 👋
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WSL Distro Manager is a free and open source app that provides a user-friendly graphical interface for managing Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) distributions. With WSL Distro Manager, you can easily install, uninstall, update, backup and restore WSL distros, as well as configure their settings and launch them with a single click. WSL Distro Manager also offers some extra features to enhance your WSL experience, such as sharing Distros between multiple machines, and creating actions to quickly do repetitive tasks. Whether you are a beginner or an expert in WSL, WSL Distro Manager will help you get the most out of it.
🚀 Features
- Manage WSL instances
- Download and use Docker images as WSL instances - without Docker!
- Quick Actions (execute pre-defined scripts directly on your instances for quick configurations)
- Download and use Turnkey or other LXC containers (experimental, tested with e.g. Turnkey WordPress)
- Use your own repository for rootfs' or LXC containers
- and more...
📦 Install
Microsoft Store
This app is available on the Microsoft Store.
Direct download
You can get this app with a direct download from the Releases page. The latest version is available as a zip file.
Install via Winget
winget install Bostrot.WSLManager
Install via Scoop
scoop install extras/wsl2-distro-manager
Install via Chocolatey
This package is maintained by the community (@mikeee). It is not an official package.
choco install wsl2-distro-manager
Install a nightly build
The latest nightly build is available as an artifact in the "releaser" workflow or via this link.
⚙️ Build
Make sure flutter is installed:
flutter config --enable-windows-desktop flutter upgrade flutter build windows # build it flutter run -d windows # run it
Author
👤 Eric Trenkel
- Website: erictrenkel.com
- GitHub: @bostrot
- LinkedIn: @erictrenkel
👥 Contributors
🤝 Contributing
Contributions, issues and feature requests are welcome!
Feel free to check the issues page.
You can also take a look at the contributing guide.
Show your support
Give a ⭐️ if this project helped you!
📝 License
Copyright © 2023 Eric Trenkel.
This project is GPL-3.0 licensed.
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