Improve help text with clearer message for --terminate option
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Description
**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**
the term "terminate" can be incorrectly translated depending on languages.
**Describe the solution you'd like**
The current help text could be improved by adding context with `(shutdown)`
from:
```
--terminate, -t
Terminates the specified distribution.
```
to:
```
--terminate, -t
Terminates (shutdown) the specified distribution.
```
**Describe alternatives you've considered**
nothing
**Additional context**
`(shutdown)` might also be the wrong context since there is no shutdown process executed. Instead `--terminate` **kills** a Windows PID? or what better term or short phrase added that could be used as additional context to describe what really happens with this option ? If a user opts to NOT use systemd, then would the chosen term or short phrase have a slightly different meaning here? Somethings to consider in this help text improvement issue.
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Research direction
Start by locating the WSL CLI help-text definition for --terminate and verify what the option actually does, including whether systemd changes that behavior. Done means agreeing on a short, accurate replacement for the current description and updating the corresponding help text.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- cli, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100