WSL2 Desktop location confusion

[caseyyoungflesh]

How could the content be improved?

Teaching a recent workshop, finding the location of the Desktop (where learners place the example data) on WSL2 machines was an issue. The instructor/helper team were not WSL2 users and finding the Desktop in these cases took quite a bit of time. This directory mapping is a major downside of WSL2 IMO, but I understand it might be a better option than the alternative.

I suggest adding in some blurb directly into the lessons, maybe 02-filedir near L588, making it clear where the Desktop is for WSL2. My understanding is that it should be in /mnt/c/Users/<YourUsername>/Desktop for everyone (though someone correct me if I'm wrong). A symlink could be create to simplify things but I think instructors would need to set this up, making it a less than ideal solution.

Happy to put in a pull request.

Which part of the content does your suggestion apply to?

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[caseyyoungflesh]

Relatedly, more issues arise when using WSL2 (rather not installing Git Bash) in the Git lesson if folks are trying to using Git with RStudio (one of the most useful things people will learn IMO). If Git is only in the VM through WSL2, they won't have it on their machine and RStudio won't find the GIt program. That is, if folks are going to use WSL2, they should also install Git Bash if they want to use Git through RStudio