Tech Handyman

Not sure how many hundreds of GBs of downloading was wasted trying to install Win 11, but, despite my best efforts to put it off, I got screwed today. Stepped away from the desk and returned to find a clunky looking UI. Worst of all, good old WSL Terminal (MinTTY) doesn't get interactive anymore. Why? Starts up with double-click on desktop icon and then vanishes. Autohotkey also messed up - my beloved KDE style drag/resize not working anymore - as in, not cleanly.. One cool feature (this is after I got WSL back), when I went to the Windows file-system within WSL - thinking it's a good idea to keep stuff in one place, and did an ls, I get a pop-up saying it's not a good idea to work across file systems - I'll see a loss of performance. Explained here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/filesystems#file-storage-and-performance-across-file-systems In fairness, I would have saved myself a tonne of time if I'd just looked at my own blog and seen that all I had...

# This file was automatically generated by WSL. To stop automatic generation of this file, add the following entry to /etc/wsl.conf : # [network] # generateResolvConf = false has just one nameserver listed, and I can't reach ubuntu. What's to be done? chatGPT says add: nameserver 8.8.8.8 nameserver 8.8.4.4 I try that, and, when get back in - there's just the automatically generated nameserver entry. If I try editing (even as sudo), I get "no such file or dir" Luckily, chatG eventually delivers.. Step 1: Remove Existing Symlink or Stale Reference Sometimes, /etc/resolv.conf in WSL is a symlink or dynamically managed file. Check if /etc/resolv.conf Exists as a Symlink: bash Copy code ls -l /etc/resolv.conf If it shows something like: javascript Copy code resolv. conf -> /run/ resolvconf/resolv. conf You’ll need to remove it. Remove the File or Symlink: bash Copy code sudo rm /etc/resolv.conf