Once we have enabled WSL and rebooted the PC, the next step is to download and install the Fedora/ RHEL root filesystem. After the zip file is downloaded, the next step is to extract it.

Fedora 42 is now in beta testing ... when it needed about a gigabyte of updates post-install, and then again in a VM the next day, when the volume of updates went up to about 1.2 GB.