this doc assumes you already have a distro installed

[m3dos]

I started following this on a newly built computer, which I didn't have a distro installed on. Beginning at the "Set a distro to be backed by WSL 2 using the command line" section its assuming you have a distro already

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• Content: Install WSL 2
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• Technology: windows-subsystem-for-linux
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[cassandragrace]

At the beginning of the document it states

Ensure that you have WSL installed

and provides a link to steps that include installing a distro.

[jcowgar]

Some of the steps are repeated, for example, if you had WSL installed already then this step isn't necessary, right?

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux

but this doc states to do it.

[craigloewen-msft]

We're trying to walk a fine line between giving out detailed information, and not repeating the docs. I've added a quick sentence to the Install WSL 2 docs page to explain where to go if you still need to install a distro.

cf6d8e2

Thank you for filing this! :)