microsoft / microsoft/vscode-remote-release
Sjow WSL version in Open Remote Window name
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Since Nov 19, 2020.
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Description
Currently the name of the Remote-WSL windows does not indicate whether it is WSL1 or WSL2.

It would be useful to have this detail displayed eg "WSL2: CentOS7"
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