Starting the NixOS-WSL distribution seems to break the ability to use windows executables from all other non-NixOS wsl distros

[e-nikolov]

I'm not sure if this is a bug in NixOS-WSL, a bug in a dependency or if I've done something wrong.
I already had a Ubuntu based WSL distro and then I imported the NixOS-WSL one.

If I start the Ubuntu based distro alone, I can run Windows executables from it, e.g., explorer.exe opens an explorer window.
When I start the NixOS distro as well, running Windows executables from it works fine, but my Ubuntu based distro starts returning an error:

❯ explorer.exe
explorer.exe: command not found

I played around with it a bit and added 1 more NixOS distro and 1 more Ubuntu distro. Starting them all up results in both NixOS distros working fine and both Ubuntu based distros being unable to run explorer.exe

Any idea what might be going on?

[claes]

Looks related? #66

[nzbr]

Yes, it's a side effect of #64. You need to set wsl.interop.register = false, nixos-rebuild and restart the WSL VM with wsl --shutdown. That should fix it