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WSL not working after update from Microsoft store
A second possible answer based on the latest information. I cannot test this personally since I am not having the issue.
Please backup (using the steps I mention in my previous answer) before trying ...
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Can windows viruses affect my encrypted linux partition on the same disk?
Only indirectly: Windows also has BIOS/UEFI malware. That could affect your ability to boot your system including non-Windows systems like Ubuntu. A full disk wipe is also possible.
Only viruses ...
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Can windows viruses affect my encrypted linux partition on the same disk?
Yes: malware on Windows could modify the bootloader of you Linux system. This modified bootloader could then for example save the encryption key to your disk once you provide the password to unlock ...
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Can windows viruses affect my encrypted linux partition on the same disk?
Short answer: yes.
Longer answer: yes, but unlikely (too rare target to bother) and if they do, they will more likely destroy/damage your Linux partition than access data there (it's possible, but way ...
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WSL not working after update from Microsoft store
Update: This answer was my first attempt at the solution (which does work), and the "safe" way of doing it. However, the "quick and easy" (but less "safe") registry ...
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error when trying to connect to windows computer with Remmina
Remmina uses xfreerdp which uses openssl to encrypt the connection via RDP to a windows computer.
Ubuntu 22.04 shipped with OpenSSL 3.0. Openssl3 changed the default security level of tls<1.2 and ...
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i can not run ubuntu 22.04 on virtual machine
The message says that virtualization is disabled in the BIOS of your computer. "VT-x is disabled in the BIOS"
Unfortunately the BIOS/UEFI control screens are wildly different between ...
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Can windows viruses affect my encrypted linux partition on the same disk?
Yes, absolutely. Any program running on your user account has the ability to do anything that you can do - that includes modifying disks, as long as you have access to them in Explorer. Raw disk ...
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DNS not working on WSL
As stated by most answers out there, creating the following configuration files and then restarting WSL should be enough:
/etc/wsl.conf
[network]
generateResolvConf = false
/etc/resolv.conf
...
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[error 2147942402 (0x80070002) when launching Ubuntu 18.04 in WSL
Finally I managed to fix this error just by adding a path related to Windows Apps [ C:\Users\OS\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps ] to my user environment variables instead of a Python path added ...
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Why can I see data belonging to Windows from Ubuntu (dual-booted)?
"Ideally I don't want to be able to access file systems of one OS from the other"
Actually, any operating system can see the files of any volume, including operating system files, unless the ...
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Recover Ubuntu Environment on Windows after windows reset
This is more a windows related answer but... look inside :
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Packages\[distro name]
If inside there's a file named ext4.vhdx you still have the virtual disk image of ubuntu, ...
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Does Nvidia gpu work in WSL2 from windows 10 home
The required minimum Windows version for running CUDA in WSL2 is 21H1. At the time the linked Nvidia article was written, that was only available as an Insider preview, but has since been released to ...
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Getting grub menu to work on dual boot Ubuntu 22.04 Windows 11. Currently boots in a loop
Ubuntu 22.04 comes with Grub 2.06 and on this version the OS Prober is set to 'disable' by default which means you won't find the other OSes such as Windows on the Grub prompt as before and here's a ...
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Ubuntu apps on Windows with WSL uninstalled
There are two parts that you are asking about:
wsl.exe remaining after uninstall/disable
First, the wsl.exe command itself comes with a base Windows 11 installation and can't be uninstalled. Even ...
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Why can I see data belonging to Windows from Ubuntu (dual-booted)?
Linux will support as many filesystems as is possible. NTFS, FAT, and exFAT are the 3 main filesystems for Windows and all three are supported.
If a partition or disk is recognized and the mount is ...
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Will installing Ubuntu over Windows 11 with BitLocker affect booting?
BitLocker is simply Microsoft's proprietary implementation of full disk encryption. Whether or not a drive has BitLocker encryption is not at all relevant to installing Ubuntu to replace all the data ...
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Has the WSL rootfs (.tar.gz) been removed from Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Releases website?
the location has changed here:
https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/wsl/
You can see kinetic is there as well. This is where it is going to live from now on.
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How do I turn off "Energy Efficient Ethernet" on my ethernet card?
You can disable Energy Efficient Ethernet in kernel parameters.
Run
sudo nano /etc/default/grub
and change
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
to
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="...
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When i installed Ubuntu 22.04 alongside Windows for Dual Boot all of this happened and i didn't find any solution online to my problem
You messed up when you created partitions for Ubuntu before installation.
In order to get the "Install alongside Windows" option, you must have enough unallocated free space for Ubuntu. That ...
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How can I create a Windows bootable USB stick using Ubuntu?
The easiest way that I know is using Ventoy.
You can get Ventoy in this web site https://www.ventoy.net/en/download.html
You just need to install Ventoy to the USB stick and Ventoy allows you to drag ...
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Open network share windows file explorer equivalent
Is it possible to do it with Ubuntu ?
You probably did not try. Ctrl+L in Files (nautilus) works the same.
You can set the shortcut key to launch the file manager to any you like in "Settings&...
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Ubuntu installation does not show "Install alongside Windows" option
Here are the prerequisites to get the guided "Install alongside Windows" option:
You must have enough unpartitioned free space for Ubuntu.
The minimum for Ubuntu Desktop is 25GB but it ...
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Ubuntu installation does not show "Install alongside Windows" option
You need to turn off 'fast startup' in Windows. You need to turn off 'secure boot' and 'tpm' in the UEFI ( what some people incorrectly still call BIOS ). Then boot from the usb device you made with ...
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is "erase disk and install ubuntu" reversible
"Erase disk and install Ubuntu" will do EXACTLY what it promises:
It will erase your entire disk, including all data and operating systems. All of it, gone forever. No undo. No reversal. No ...
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Can't figure out how to add padding to left side of terminal in WSL 2 Ubuntu 20.04.5 (On Win11)
Well there's a lot going on in this question! First, it's important to understand what terminal you are using with Ubuntu on WSL, and which terminals you aren't.
The first set of instructions you ...
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How to chown of a directory in another disk?
If the "other disk" is Windows, then it's NTFS. NTFS does not respect Linux file permissions. As such, chown, chmod, etc. does not work on NTFS drives and partitions or any files on them.
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software recommendation to enable viewing of Windows format picture images in Ubuntu
I realise this is 8 years old, but this answer might be useful for others with the same issue.
Medical images are almost always in the DICOM format (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DICOM)
If you’re ...
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Accessing Ubuntu WSL files from Kali WSL and vice versa
Adding to @NotTheDr01d's answer, I need to take into consideration that a different automount root might be defined in /etc/wsl.conf. In my case, I set it to /, so /mnt/c is actually /c, and /mnt/wsl ...
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