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This is a good suggestion. The problem is that enabling the optional component requires admin and requires rebooting the machine. Doing this from a store app is problematic.

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But still a suggestion or a link to an how-to would be highly appreciated. Or find a way to enable the flag and then ask for explicit reboot.

I second the idea to lower down the barrier. Would make WSL definitely a game changer.

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@julianxhokaxhiu - There is already a link that is displayed:
https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL-DistroLauncher/blob/e9a4504514223b27624eedaf4fdc8708cfdbaecd/DistroLauncher/messages.mc#L79

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@benhillis Sure that this one works? There are many complains in the Microsoft Store about an unknown error and I also remember that I got that when I first set it up.

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@levrik - if it doesn't work for you let me know and I can investigate. That's how I enable the subsystem on my test machines.

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@benhillis No. Enabling the subsystem and installing everything works perfect. But this error message doesn't seem to work if the subsystem is still disabled. It shows some cryptic error instead. At least when I set it up for the first time and there are also a few (or many?) complains on the Microsoft Store about this error.

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@levrik - This errors on the Microsoft Store are from a previous version of this sample that did not have proper error checking or error strings.

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@benhillis ah, okay. good to know. then there should be no issue with that message 🙂

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However, according to my observation, some people just do as follows:

1. Install a Linux "app" from the Store without reading any attention message (Yes, just clicking the download button and waiting for it completed).
2. Open the Linux "app" and find the error message.
3. Uninstall the Linux "app" and rate it 1 star in the store.
4. Tell others not to use the Linux "apps" from the store because he/she thinks it buggy.

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