I tracked down (with difficulty) the way to revert to WSL1 (https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/WSL/issues/590): wsl --set-default-version 1 After executing this, I was able to run Fedora. I appreciate some of the other suggestions, and they might have been theoretically better, but given that I felt I was most of the way there, I didn't want to start over with something new. Thanks to all, Alan