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Discussion on: Setting up Arch Linux with KDE Plasma in Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

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Rashil Gandhi

You can't use 127.0.0.1. WSL2 is no longer running natively (i.e. through translation). It's a virtual machine now. So it'll function the same as a VM; it'll have it's own network interfaces separate from those of Windows.