Allow WSL distros to change their WSL name
We rebranded WLinux to Pengwin. We maintained the WLinux name in the WSL API [1](https://github.com/WhitewaterFoundry/Pengwin/blob/master/DistroLauncher/DistributionInfo.h#L16) in order to avoid breakage [2](https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/3054). However this means Pengwin still appears as ``\WSL$\WLinux`` in Explorer. It also means Pengwin appears as WLinux in the new Terminal application. We could issue a new package of Pengwin in the Store with the new name in the API, offering it for free to everyone who has bought the old Pengwin, but it would mean a lot of links to the old package would break and would cause user confusion. If down the line it becomes possible to rename WSL distros or identify them with a specific UUID and string that can change, it would be much appreciated. Thank you.
Posted by sirredbeard on Jun 28, 2019, 12:33 AM
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Huh, this is not my experience.
For some reason an Azure outage does not faze me in the same way that an AWS outage does.
The triplet of wind, pole, dragon appears multiple times in the same order, so is possibly a single phrase that has been broken up into t...
Option to skip refreshing resource instances whose configuration hasn't changed since the last apply
[YouTube] Unable to extract uploader id
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Allow WSL distros to change their WSL name
We rebranded WLinux to Pengwin. We maintained the WLinux name in the WSL API [1](https://github.com/WhitewaterFoundry/Pengwin/blob/master/DistroLauncher/DistributionInfo.h#L16) in order to avoid breakage [2](https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/3054). However this means Pengwin still appears as ``\WSL$\WLinux`` in Explorer. It also means Pengwin appears as WLinux in the new Terminal application. We could issue a new package of Pengwin in the Store with the new name in the API, offering it for free to everyone who has bought the old Pengwin, but it would mean a lot of links to the old package would break and would cause user confusion. If down the line it becomes possible to rename WSL distros or identify them with a specific UUID and string that can change, it would be much appreciated. Thank you.
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