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Found '/feature', adding tag 'feature'

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Thank you @fabis94.

Automatically downgrading to older versions of WSL is unfortunately very difficult to achieve at the technical level, and is a relatively rare scenario.

In your case though since you appear to be downgrading from >= 2.0.0 to 1.X, here's what you were missing:

Running:

wsl --uninstall

Before installing a version < 2.0.0 should resolve the issue.

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@OneBlue Fair enough. Could this information about why downgrading is not made possible and instructions on how to rollback be made more visible, tho? That's the other problem - it is very difficult to find any resources explaining what is the recommended procedure for rolling back versions, and a lot of it is outdated (pointing towards wsl --update --rollback).

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