WSL Manager Bostrot
winget install --id=Bostrot.WSLManager -e A GUI to quickly manage your WSL2 instances.
WSL Manager is a graphical user interface (GUI) tool designed to simplify and streamline the management of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) instances.
Key Features:
- Install, configure, and manage multiple Linux distributions seamlessly.
- Intuitive interface for launching, starting, stopping, or deleting WSL2 instances.
- Direct integration with VS Code for enhanced development workflows.
- Access live terminal sessions within the application.
- Monitor performance metrics such as CPU, memory, and disk usage.
- Perform batch operations to manage multiple distributions at once.
- Keep your Linux distros up-to-date directly from the tool.
Audience & Benefit:
Ideal for developers, IT professionals, and Linux enthusiasts who work with WSL2 on Windows. WSL Manager provides a time-saving, user-friendly solution to efficiently organize and maintain WSL2 environments, enabling faster development cycles and improved productivity.
Available via winget for easy installation.
README
Welcome to WSL Manager 👋
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> WSL Distro Manager is a free and open source app that provides a user-friendly graphical interface for managing Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) distributions. With WSL Distro Manager, you can easily install, uninstall, update, backup and restore WSL distros, as well as configure their settings and launch them with a single click. WSL Distro Manager also offers some extra features to enhance your WSL experience, such as sharing Distros between multiple machines, and creating actions to quickly do repetitive tasks. Whether you are a beginner or an expert in WSL, WSL Distro Manager will help you get the most out of it.
🚀 Features
- Manage WSL instances
- Download and use Docker images as WSL instances - without Docker!
- Quick Actions (execute pre-defined scripts directly on your instances for quick configurations)
- Download and use Turnkey or other LXC containers (experimental, tested with e.g. Turnkey WordPress)
- Use your own repository for rootfs' or LXC containers
- and more...
📦 Install
Microsoft Store
This app is available on the Microsoft Store.
Direct download
You can get this app with a direct download from the Releases page. The latest version is available as a zip file.
Install via Winget
The winget package is outdated! Please use the Windows Store version instead.
winget install Bostrot.WSLManager
Install via Chocolatey
This package is maintained by the community (@mikeee). It is not an official package.
choco install wsl2-distro-manager
Install a nightly build
The last build can be found as artifacts in the "releaser" workflow or via this link. If you rather prefer an unsigned msix you can also use this link.
⚙️ Build
Make sure flutter is installed:
flutter config --enable-windows-desktop
flutter upgrade
flutter build windows # build it
flutter run -d windows # run it
Author
👤 Eric Trenkel
- Website: erictrenkel.com
- GitHub: @bostrot
- LinkedIn: @erictrenkel
👥 Contributors
🤝 Contributing
Contributions, issues and feature requests are welcome!
Feel free to check the issues page.
You can also take a look at the contributing guide.
Show your support
Give a ⭐️ if this project helped you!
📝 License
Copyright © 2023 Eric Trenkel.
This project is GPL-3.0 licensed.
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