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Aatmanirbhar Bharat · Public welfare

Onboard a Windows engineer to Linux, in fifteen minutes.

Enterprise IT bans Linux laptops. Engineers fight WSL setup for a week. Most give up and ship Windows-flavoured bugs from the wrong shell. WSL Enterprise Manager is the suite that gets a fresh Windows machine to a working Ubuntu, with a desktop environment if needed, a hardened SSH, a Docker setup and a backup plan, before the new engineer's first stand-up ends.

wsl-manager.bat · WSL Enterprise Manager v2.0 _ □ ✕

Windows · cmd · admin

> wsl-manager.bat

[1] Quick Install (GUI / Headless)

[2] List All Installations

[9] GUI Environments

[11] Security Hardening

[12] Resource Monitor

> 1 // quick install

Enabling WSL feature... ok

Enabling VM Platform... ok

Setting WSL 2 default... ok

Installing Ubuntu... ok

Ubuntu via WSL · /home/eng

eng@dev:~$ uname -a

Linux dev 5.15 ... GNU/Linux

eng@dev:~$ bash gui-setup.sh xfce

+ XFCE installed

+ x11 / wayland ready

eng@dev:~$ bash devops-setup.sh

+ docker, kubectl, helm

+ terraform, ansible

eng@dev:~$ bash server-setup.sh harden

+ ufw, fail2ban, ssh-hardened

eng@dev:~$ ready in 14m 22s

· WSL bridge ·

View source The menu Forensic dump

~15mWindows engineer onboarded to Linux

7+Distros · Ubuntu, Debian, Kali, Fedora, Alpine, Arch...

6Desktops · GNOME, KDE, XFCE, LXQt, MATE, Cinnamon

5Dev presets · web, data, devops, sys, java

11Forensic categories on uninstall

Act I · The Problem

The shell is Windows. The world is Linux.

Most production runs Linux. Most engineers in Indian enterprises are issued Windows laptops. WSL is the bridge. WSL setup is the pothole. New engineers spend their first week fighting it instead of writing code.

Pain 01

Setup-by-screenshot.

Enable feature, enable VM platform, set WSL 2, install distro, restart, restart again. Eight steps. One missed flag and the whole thing silently breaks.

Pain 02

"GUI in WSL" is folklore.

WSLg, X server, VcXsrv, GWSL, DISPLAY, Wayland. Most engineers settle for headless because the desktop story is opaque. They never get a real Linux experience.

Pain 03

Backup, security, networking are nobody's job.

WSL ships without UFW configuration, without scheduled exports, without port-forwarding scripts, without VHD compaction. The engineer hits each problem alone, the night before a release.

Pain 04

Uninstall leaves no record.

An engineer leaves, a distro is destroyed, the auditor asks what was in it. Nobody knows. WSL has no native forensic dump.

Act II · The Manager

Every WSL operation an enterprise IT team needs is one number away. The same script that quick-installs Ubuntu also configures global .wslconfig, sets up SSH, compacts the VHD, schedules backups and runs a forensic dump before destruction.

[1]	Quick Install	GUI or headless · pick OS and installation type
[2]	List Installations	Installed and available distributions
[3]	Advanced Install	Custom paths, cloning, presets
[4]	Manage Existing	Start, stop, configure distributions
[5]	Backup & Export	Single distro or all-at-once, scheduled
[6]	Import & Restore	Restore a backup as a fresh distro
[7]	Uninstall & Cleanup	Forensic dump first, then destroy
[8]	Update All	Update every installed distribution
[9]	GUI Environments	GNOME · KDE · XFCE · LXQt · MATE · Cinnamon
[10]	Docker Integration	Container setup, Desktop integration
[11]	Security Hardening	UFW, Fail2Ban, SSH hardening, audit tools
[12]	Resource Monitor	Real-time CPU, memory, disk
[13]	Global Settings	Edit `.wslconfig` safely
[14]	Network	Port forwarding, DNS, SSH access
[15]	Storage	VHD compact, resize, relocation
[16]	View Logs	Operation history, timestamped

Act III · The Presets

Five days of "sudo apt install", prepacked.

Pick the kind of engineer. The preset installs the entire toolchain. Engineer is at day-2 productivity by lunch.

Preset 01

Full Stack Web

Node.js, npm, Python, Docker, PostgreSQL, Redis.

Preset 02

Python & Data Science

Python, pip, Jupyter, NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib.

Preset 03

DevOps & SRE

Docker, kubectl, Helm, Terraform, Ansible, AWS / Azure CLIs.

Preset 04

System Programming

GCC, G++, CMake, Rust, Go, GDB.

Preset 05

Java Enterprise

OpenJDK 17, Maven, Gradle.

Preset 06

Server Hardening

UFW, Fail2Ban, SSH key-only, automatic security updates.

Act IV · Audit-grade exit

Before the distro dies, it tells you everything.

When the destructor runs, it dumps eleven categories of forensic data into forensics/{distro}_forensic_{YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS}.txt first. Then deletes. Auditor never has to ask.

Host systemComputer name, Windows version, system specs, user info.

WSL environmentWSL version, all distributions, status.

Users/etc/passwd, /etc/group, sudo users, login history.

Shell historyBash and Zsh history for root and regular users.

PackagesAPT, RPM, Snap, Pip, NPM packages.

NetworkInterfaces, routes, DNS, hosts, open ports, connections.

FilesystemDisk usage, mounts, recent files.

SecuritySSH config, authorized keys, firewall rules, SUID files.

DockerContainers, images.

ServicesEnabled and running systemd services.

LogsAuth logs (last 100 lines), syslog (last 50 lines).

Act V · The Stack

What is inside.

Windows Batch
PowerShell
Bash
WSL 2
WSLg
Ubuntu / Debian / Kali / Fedora / Alpine / Arch
GNOME / KDE / XFCE / LXQt / MATE / Cinnamon
UFW + Fail2Ban
Docker
systemd

Act VI · Proof & Honesty

Open source. Honest about alpha.

Source · divyamohan1993/wsl-enterprise-manager

Public source. Sixteen menu options, six desktop environments, six dev presets. README walks through every script and every wslconfig knob.

Aatmanirbhar Bharat initiative

Built and maintained as a public-welfare effort by dmj.one. MIT licensed. Free to use inside any Indian enterprise that has banned Linux laptops but cannot ban Linux engineering.

Reads as 11 forensic categories on exit

Every uninstall produces a timestamped forensic dump in forensics/ before deleting. Auditor-ready, attacker-uncomfortable.

Status: alpha · 80%+ functions failing today

The README opens with a clear ALPHA banner. This is the honest state of v2.0. The architecture, scripts and onboarding flow are real and worth showing. Expect rough edges. File issues.

Want to onboard a Windows team to Linux without losing the week?

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