Fedora Remix for WSL 36 Released

Fedora 36.0.3:

• Upgraded to Fedora 36

• Added SystemD optional support, creating a new Start Menu icon and a profile in Windows Terminal. Both have (SystemD) in their name.

• Added a new command wslsystemctl to start services without starting SystemD, as other distros like Ubuntu does with the service command.

• Added tweaks to be able to run snaps with WSLg.* Added tweaks to be able to run GNOME Desktop using Remote Desktop Connection.

Upgrade Fedora Remix for WSL to 36

Today May 10, Fedora 36 was released

You can upgrade your existing installation of Fedora 35 with the following steps.

First, if you are in Windows 1903 or newer first backup your installation:

wsl --export fedoraremix fedoraremix35_backup.tar.gz

Then proceed:

NOTE: DO NOT PERFORM THE UPGRADE STARTING FEDORA REMIX WITH SYSTEMD, IT WILL RUIN YOUR INSTALLATION

upgrade.sh
sudo dnf -y upgrade --refresh
sudo dnf -y install dnf-plugin-system-upgrade
sudo rpm --import https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/fedora-repos/blob/rawhide/f/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-36-primary
sudo dnf -y install distribution-gpg-keys
sudo dnf -y system-upgrade --allowerasing --skip-broken download --releasever=36
sudo dnf -y system-upgrade reboot

At this point, it will raise an error, ignore it, and execute the following commands:

sudo dnf -y system-upgrade upgrade
sudo dnf -y autoremove
sudo dnf -y clean all
sudo mandb upgrade.sh
cat /etc/fedora-release

exit

Enjoy it!