# bostrot/wsl2-distro-manager

A GUI to quickly manage your WSL2 instances

Repository: https://github.com/bostrot/wsl2-distro-manager
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/wsl2-distro-manager
Homepage: https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/wsl-manager/9NWS9K95NMJB
Language: Dart
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: wsl2, gui, windows, flutter, wsl, collaborate, github, docker, rootfs, turnkey
Last push: 2026-08-26T22:18:42+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 83/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 53, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1811, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 152, "gap_med": 110, "n_releases_24m": 6}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3965, forks 177 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:30.686056+00:00)

## What it is
A free and open-source Flutter-based GUI application for managing Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) distributions. It lets users install, uninstall, update, back up, and restore WSL distros, run Docker images as WSL instances without Docker, and execute quick-action scripts.

## Use cases
- manage wsl2 distros from a gui
- backup and restore wsl instances
- run docker images as wsl distros without docker
- share wsl distros between machines
- run predefined setup scripts on wsl instances
- download turnkey lxc containers as wsl distros

## When to choose
- you use WSL2 on Windows and want a graphical alternative to wsl CLI commands
- you need to clone, back up, or share WSL distros across machines
- you want to spin up Docker images or LXC containers as lightweight WSL instances

## When to avoid
- you are on Linux or macOS rather than Windows
- you only need full Docker container orchestration rather than WSL distro management
- you prefer scripting everything with the built-in wsl command line

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: gui, developer-tools, configuration-management, container-runtime
- domain: developer-tools, windows, self-hosted
- platform: windows
- tags: wsl2, wsl, flutter, distro-manager, rootfs, lxc, docker-images, containers, desktop

## Member repositories
- bostrot/wsl2-distro-manager (main) score 83

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:30.686056+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:24:25.085519+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/bostrot/wsl2-distro-manager (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:30.686056+00:00, sha 910b9745f6bd)
  - homepage: https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/wsl-manager/9NWS9K95NMJB (fetched 2026-08-29T09:17:52.235200+00:00, sha 06bdb468bcf0)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.