I recently changed the name of my default wsl distro name using the Windows registry. Now when I call vscode’s command line command code .
it opens the folder in the wrong distro. Does anyone know how to change the default –remote location when calling code
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To resolve my issue I ended up doing:
wsl --shutdown
in PowershellUpon reopening Ubuntu and running
code .
it opened to the default distro set on wslReplace "your_desired_distro_name" with your desired distro name.