• I have installed nixos. Its on wsl version 2. Its set to default.
• I open it using wsl -d <distro name>
• I cd into /mnt/wslg/distro/etc/nixos/
• I try to edit the file using "sudo nano configuration.nix" (I use nano since I didnt know which editor and using nano appears here https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Nixos-rebuild.)

In reply to @k900:0upti.me
For VSCode, the easiest workaround is probably https://github.com/K900/vscode-remote-workaround/blob/main/vscode.nix

In reply to @balanced_design:matrix.org
K900, sorry to bother, that link you sent here. Is this supposed to go into the nix config?
I tried to some searching for other places a .nix file may need to go, but didnt find any general overview with a cursory search.

Hi, I am currently having trouble figuring out why my wsl install of nix isn't seeing windows binaries available to it (explorer.exe for instance) nor can I see the windows path prepended to my nixOS path.

My config for the system (wsl specifically) is:

wsl = {
  enable = true;
  defaultUser = "redacted";
  nativeSystemd = true;
  interop.register = true;
  wslConf.network.hostname = "nixwsl";
};

Based on the documentation provided here: https://nix-community.github.io/NixOS-WSL/options.html the following options default to true and as such I assume they are set whether or not I explicitly define them in the block above?

• wsl.interop.includePath
• wsl.wslConf.interop.enabled
• wsl.wslConf.interop.appendWindowsPath

However upon trying to run "explorer.exe" - it simply does not work. Not so on my orther wsl VM running Arch where the path seems to be appended properly. Can anyone help?

In reply to @k900:0upti.me
What shell are you using?