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Discussion on: A Guide to Installing the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and Windows Terminal

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Josue Mendez

I'm currently running wsl1 , wsl2 broke my network and gave me multiple networking issues , I couldn't install any packages whatsoever, so for now I'll stick with 1

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David R. Myers

Thanks for replying! This is a known issue, and there are a few options for fixing it. This thread on GitHub has a lot of information about the issue you are running into.
github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/5336

While it's hard to say which problem you are running into specifically, it seems to be commonly related to DNS. This answer in particular has a largely positive response.

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Josue Mendez

That's awesome , I'll have to upgrade and see if that fixes the issue !