He started with the loudest ghost: Ubuntu.
After the reboot, Alex ran wsl --status . The command was dead. Good. But his disk space hadn't changed. He opened File Explorer and navigated to the hidden lair: C:\Users\Alex\AppData\Local\Packages He deleted any folder starting with CanonicalGroupLimited or TheDebianProject . Then, the real grave: C:\Users\Alex\AppData\Local\Docker and C:\Users\Alex\AppData\Local\wsl . He held Shift + Delete. how to uninstall wsl
'wsl' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Alex leaned back. The fan on his laptop spun down. The 40 gigabytes of phantom data were gone. No more grep in the wrong window. No more mysterious init processes. The ghost was dead. He started with the loudest ghost: Ubuntu
The Ghost in the Terminal