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Reset WSL2 Password to default

Somethimes I don't use WSL on my main machine for long periods of time and I forget the user password, so I've done this more than once.

Step 1:

Open a command prompt as administrator.

Get the Name of the WSL installation

wsl --list --verbose
Screenshot of where we are so far

Step 2: Set default user …

How I backup my WSL2 VM

I like the "idea" of Unix and the derivatives Linux and FreeBSD in particular. However, most the applications that I need to actually get work done rely on Windows.

So, when I build personal proejcts I like to build them with FreeBSD or a flavour of Linux (Like with TrueNAS …