READ FIRST: Installing kubuntu-desktop on WSL2

This post is meant as a warning, DONT DO IT, without some research first.

But if you end up here, you have likely already made the mistake ;)

It in this case is, “this” is…

sudo apt install kubuntu-desktop

Before you attempt this, do some reasearch, head the warning, and be casefull (maybe even backup your disk so you can undo the mess if you make it ;).

If you have already done this and partially bricked your Ubuntu installation, don’t worry, you can fix it!

Symptoms

  • apt, dpkg, service commands and more basically unresponsive and hanging
  • Extremely slow boot times
  • System never seems to entirely boot correctly
  • sudo su etc might also not work

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