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[obsidian forum]

is this right?

@balmy idol

[balmy idol]

It is just a black screen? Nothing loaded?

[obsidian forum]

well ye

there's the flashing white thingy

[balmy idol]

Oh. Press enter maybe?

[obsidian forum]

nope

do i need to set it up?

[balmy idol]

Maybe try closing and re opening again then

[balmy idol]

Honestly not sure

[obsidian forum]

sorry

em i've restared my computer

[balmy idol]

Ok - any luck?

[obsidian forum]

i have an app called wsl but it won't open

[balmy idol]

Try launching Ubuntu again

[obsidian forum]

ye nothing

all i did was the install command maybe there's smth else?

wait

here's stmh

[balmy idol]

Hmm

Try this in Powershell

wsl -l -v

[obsidian forum]

pleu

somehow that was meant to be okay

[balmy idol]

I don’t follow, sorry

[obsidian forum]

give me a second

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am i meant to be using windows powersheel ise?

[trail sand]

Some containers dont give any login prompt when they start, if you can type anything into the box then try to enter the username and then the password.

[obsidian forum]

maybe i should try and run a bash

[balmy idol]

You can try that and see what happens. In powershell

[obsidian forum]

try the command?

i did that

maybe i'm not rebooting right?

right imma try a bash

what's a linux command i can test

[trail sand]

echo hi

[obsidian forum]

is that not command prompt

[trail sand]

its bash, maybe its a windows command too

what are you goind to enter it into?

[obsidian forum]

this is new

[trail sand]

maybe lower the processors to like 4

8 seems excessive

idk if that will fix though

[trail sand]

can you still get to this screen?

[mild shore]

you have to enable a couple windows features

okay nvm seems like that's done

[trail sand]

also weird discord to get wsl help from fyi

[mild shore]

we get plenty of non-python specific help requests

if it's within the realm of reasonably easy to assist with it's fine

[trail sand]

alr cool

theres a chance you might need to enable virtualization in your bios but dont do that yet

[mild shore]

actually, try launching ubuntu now

(it'll take a while first launch, and then prompt you to set a password)

the password won't show up as you type, it's hidden, it'll ask for you to re-type to make sure you have it right

[obsidian forum]

oh

okay i'll just do it later

(i've just deleted everything so imma have to reinstall it)

[mild shore]

just to be clear, there will be other stuff indicative of prompting you for a password though

refer to this to make sure you're set for everything/if you run into any issues https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install

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