[NekkoDroid]

> Arch and Fedora can't come to WSL2 soon enough.

Arch already has an official WSL distro. Though you are still at the mercy of the WSL2 kernel which is always a bit behind (currently 6.12)

[pdimitar]

Does it? Just last night ran wsl with `--list --online`. Is there another way to do it that would show Arch?

[NekkoDroid]

I get the following when I use `--list --online`:

    The following is a list of valid distributions that can be installed.
    Install using 'wsl.exe --install <Distro>'.

    NAME                            FRIENDLY NAME
    Ubuntu                          Ubuntu
    Ubuntu-24.04                    Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
    openSUSE-Tumbleweed             openSUSE Tumbleweed
    openSUSE-Leap-16.0              openSUSE Leap 16.0
    SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-15-SP7    SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP7
    SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-16.0      SUSE Linux Enterprise 16.0
    kali-linux                      Kali Linux Rolling
    Debian                          Debian GNU/Linux
    AlmaLinux-8                     AlmaLinux OS 8
    AlmaLinux-9                     AlmaLinux OS 9
    AlmaLinux-Kitten-10             AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10
    AlmaLinux-10                    AlmaLinux OS 10
    archlinux                       Arch Linux             # Arch found here
    FedoraLinux-43                  Fedora Linux 43
    FedoraLinux-42                  Fedora Linux 42
    eLxr                            eLxr 12.12.0.0 GNU/Linux
    Ubuntu-20.04                    Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
    Ubuntu-22.04                    Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
    OracleLinux_7_9                 Oracle Linux 7.9
    OracleLinux_8_10                Oracle Linux 8.10
    OracleLinux_9_5                 Oracle Linux 9.5
    openSUSE-Leap-15.6              openSUSE Leap 15.6
    SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-15-SP6    SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP6

Ontop of that I also use it as my main distro for WSL2 for a few months (before I used the unofficial one).

The bug tracker for WSL specific issues is also here: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/archlinux-wsl