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Discussion on: Upgrading from WSL1 to WSL2

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Mayukh Chatterjee

what if i upgrade wsl1 to wsl2, will i lost the other downloded tools like GCC, valgrind,gdb?

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Aditya Kanekar

None of my files were lost in the process, so I assume it will retain the tools. However I am not so sure on this one, but you can always reinstall the tools.