On April 15, 2025 4:16:13 AM EDT, Robin Candau <an...@archlinux.org> wrote:
>On 3/3/25 9:12 AM, Robin Candau wrote:
>>> On 1/28/25 12:59 AM, Robin Candau wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> I'm writing this mail to collect thoughts and interests about providing an
>>> official Arch Linux image for WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) [1].
>>> [...]
>>>
>>
>> The related RFC is now accepted!
>>
>> I'm gonna start the next implementation phases :)
>>
>
>Hi everyone,
>
>Quick follow up on this thread to tell you that we are now fully done with the
>WSL image 🥳🎉
>
>The image has now been added to the Microsoft WSL's official distribution
>manifest [1] and can therefore be installed with a single PowerShell command
>from a Windows system with WSL 2 installed: `wsl --install archlinux`
>
>As a reminder, the image is maintained in the archlinux/archlinux-wsl GitLab
>repository [2], is now available on mirrors [3] and has a dedicated Arch Wiki
>page [4].
>
>Thanks to everyone who shared thoughts, showed support or helped with the
>implementation in any way!
>
>[1] https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/pull/12818
>[2] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/archlinux-wsl
>[3] https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/wsl/
>[4] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Install_Arch_Linux_on_WSL
>
Excellent work! I've successfully installed this on a Windows machine without
issue. Only one small nit: the Arch logo image that's used on install has a
white background instead of a transparent one. Functionally I haven't had any
issues yet :)
