Fedora 43 on WSL weird issues

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Hi

I installed Fedora 43 on WSL and I am getting some weird issues
So I wonder if the Fedora 43 installer is provided by Microsoft or the Fedora Project

The two unusually issue I saw

  1. default emacs install doesnt start a graphical emacs or a gtk emacs , this worked fine in Fedora 42

what this means is when i run the emacs command in Fedora 42 (wsl) it open a gui version of emacs by default

when i run the emacs command in Fedora 43 (wsl) it open emacs-nw

  1. awk is not installed in the base install of Fedora 43 on wsl

I wonder how I can better troubleshoot those issues, and know/tell, is they are created by Microsoft or the Fedora Project

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At least with my barry’s emacs it opens it’s GUI on 42 and 43 under WSL.
My emacs uses Qt for its tool kit.

Maybe GNU emacs is using a tool kit that has issues?

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I’d guess that it’s only installed if another package has it as a dependency.
Being missing is not a problem if all the installed apps work.

On my KDE desktop it is installed but I’m not sure what pulled it in.

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Its still weird, that awk would not be installed in a fresh base install of fedora 43, specially when it is in fedora 42

i think something is seriously broken, but i have no idea how wsl really work, and why this would happen

anyway, i should have made a proper issue on their github page, instead i just use their github discussion board, which it seems no one looks at

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Report to Fedora and see what response you get.
Make sure you detail exactly how you install the 43 on wsl.

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