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		rocqua on Aug 16, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Using the same Arch Linux installation for a decad... I yearn for my arch days where 'ls /etc' only yielded things I knew about. These days I am stuck with WSL, and that sadly does not work with Arch. As far as I can tell the Arch community does not want to support WSL because of philosophical disagreement.

lillecarl on Aug 16, 2022 [–]

WSL2 should have no problems running arch at all.

https://github.com/yuk7/ArchWSL

rocqua on Aug 17, 2022 | [–]

That is not the kind of packaging that inspires confidence. And the effort it takes to verify it isn't backdoored is too much. Definitely, my IT department is not going to appreciate me installing this. In this case, I actually think our IT department would be right.

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