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| Before starting, you may want to make a backup of whatever you had in your Ubuntu home directory, and all the files and settings that are not in the ''/mnt'' directories | Before starting, you may want to make a backup of whatever you had in your Ubuntu home directory, and all the files and settings that are not in the ''/mnt'' directories | ||
| - | === Removing a Linux installation === | + | === Removing a specific Linux installation === |
| - | This process is called unregistering | + | This process is called //unregistering// (based on [[https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/basic-commands#unregister-or-uninstall-a-linux-distribution|Unregister or uninstall a Linux distribution]]) |
| You just need to get the list of the currently installed Linux distributions, stop them and remove/unregister a specific distribution name | You just need to get the list of the currently installed Linux distributions, stop them and remove/unregister a specific distribution name | ||
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| === Removing WSL === | === Removing WSL === | ||
| - | FIXME | + | ''wsl'' is a part of the Windows system and probably can't be removed. |
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| + | Anyway, when all existing Linux distributions are uninstalled, there should not be any big ''.vhdx'' files remaining (i.e. //no extra disk space used//), and there will not be any Linux processes running (i.e. //no extra CPU used//). | ||
other/win10wsl.txt · Last modified: 2023/12/06 13:24 by jypeter
