Testing 22 WSL Distributions Live on Twitch (13 Passed, 9 Failed)
The Question Nobody Asked Which WSL distributions from the Windows Store actually work with the Vagrant WSL2 Provider? I didn’t know. And I realized - that’s a problem. The provider uses wsl --install --distribution <name> to download and install distributions directly from the Windows Store. But there are 22 distributions available, and I’d only tested Ubuntu-24.04. Time to find out what works and what doesn’t. Building the Test The goal was simple: iterate through every distribution from wsl -l -o, try to create a Vagrant environment with it, and document what fails. ...