I just reinstalled ubuntu on WSL2 from scratch in order to upgrade to 20.04 with a clean slate. The main issue I've noticed has to do with a lot of packages moving to snap rather than being maintained on apt, which is how I imagine most people here install their packages.

In fact it seems like Ubuntu 20.04 LTS replaced the ubuntu software with snapcraft entirely. So it's obvious snap is becoming the 'default' of the distro.

The issue is that snap doesn't currently seem to work on wsl2 due to it's reliance on systemd. If I understand it correctly, the snapd service should be running in the background for it to work, which snapd already comes preinstalled, however snapd can't start due to WSL2 not having systemd.

So if I run the command snap find node for example, it gives me the following error message:

error: cannot communicate with server: Post http://localhost/v2/snaps/hello-world: dial unix /run/snapd.socket: connect: no such file or directory

Running the command sudo service snapd start simply responds with:

snapd: unrecognized service

However snapd is already installed.

Is there any plan to get this working in the future, or is it something that is in progress?

In my development flow, I like to use the chromium-browser on WSL2 with the X410 server in order to test my web apps in both Windows and Linux browsers, since they can reveal some bugs, like say, when uploading csv files files from a Windows browser, React can't really tell since Windows changes the MIME Type of the file, whereas Linux and Mac keep it the same and so it's easy to handle.

Now I can't really use chromium though, since I can't install it without snap anymore.

EDIT: After several hours of trying to fix it I came across several other issues from about 8-10 months ago, with the most popular solution being this, which seems to make some changed to PIDs to make it work, but it just seems so hacky, and it's not a permanent solution, as a restart will remove it.

• Windows Version: 10.0.19613.1000
• Ubuntu 20.04 WSL2