Might include that WSL1 is not compatible with Ubuntu20.04

[MaxPowerWasTaken]

Setting up WSL, when I reached "Install your Linux Distribution of Choice" I went with the latest Ubuntu LTS - 20.04. After running into [this issue[(https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/5125) trying to run apt-key add, I was pointed to this warning that Ubuntu 20.04 is not yet compatible with WSL1.

I think this would be helpful to have highlighted in this install instructions page, as absent this warning, I think many people would probably assume choosing the latest LTS Ubuntu is a safe distro choice.

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[pechter]

WSL2 has some serious advantages over WSL1. However, WSL2 doesn't coexist with VMware Player/Workstation or VirtualBox unless you have a fairly new cpu on the box. VMware's betaing a version that works with the new Device Guard... The dual 6 core Xeons on the box here used for testing has to have WSL2 removed to test the same thing in Windows Subsystem for Linux. Ugh.

[cgaolei]

Having this problem when adding apt-key add in 20.04LTS Sublinux system:

gpg: can't connect to the agent: IPC connect call failed

[ghost]

i removed gpg and installed gnupg1, and it worked...

$sudo apt-get remove gpg
$sudo apt-get install gnupg1

[MaxPowerWasTaken]

Interesting - thanks zico. Would you be willing to post that workaround on the ubuntu forum and MS/WSL github issue page I linked above? I'd be interested to see if the maintainers there agree that workaround is 'safe'. But sounds awesome, thanks!