Make your wsl 2 Current Distro Run Systemd
By this installation, systemd is enabled in your WSL 2 distro. Download and run the latest installer script. curl -L -O "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nullpo-head/wsl-distrod/main/install.sh" chmod +x install.sh sudo ./install.sh install This script installs distrod, but doesn't enable it yet. Enable distrod in your distro You have two options. If you want to automatically start your distro on Windows startup, enable distrod by the following command /opt/distrod/bin/distrod enable --start-on-windows-boot Otherwise, /opt/distrod/bin/distrod enable You can run enable with --start-on-windows-boot again if you want to enable autostart later. Restart your distro Close your WSL's terminal. Open a new Command Prompt window, and run the following command. wsl --terminate Distrod After re-opening a new WSL window, your shell runs in a systemd session