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Life & fun · November 7, 2021

Distrod – WSL2 Distros with Systemd; Arch, Gentoo and More with Systemd

Distrod is a meta-distro for WSL 2 which installs Ubuntu, Arch, Debian, Gentoo, etc. with systemd in a minute for you. Distrod also has built-in auto-start feature on Windows startup and port forwarding ability. - nullpo-head/wsl-distrod

Distrod – WSL2 Distros with Systemd; Arch, Gentoo and More with Systemd launched on November 7, 2021 with 59 votes, #1,044 of 2,925 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.

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Distrod is a tool that enables systemd support in WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux 2) distributions. It allows users to run Linux distributions including Arch and Gentoo on Windows with full systemd functionality, which is not natively available in standard WSL2 setups. The tool is particularly useful for developers and system administrators who need systemd-dependent applications or services to run properly in their WSL2 environment.

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