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Suggest modifying wsl unregister to wsl remove to fix ambiguous meanings. #11464

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BrokenWingsIcarus opened this issue Apr 15, 2024 · 6 comments

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As a beginner in WSL, I mistakenly understood the meaning of WSL -- unregister, resulting in the deletion of a subsystem and inability to recover. Can you add a confirmation prompt for secondary deletion and modify the name of the parameter.

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@BrokenWingsIcarus BrokenWingsIcarus changed the title Suggest modifying wsl unregister to wsl remove or wsl add to fix ambiguous meanings. Suggest modifying wsl unregister to wsl remove to fix ambiguous meanings. Apr 15, 2024
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OneBlue commented Apr 15, 2024

/dupe #9932

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Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists in this repository. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread.

Thanks for your report!

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