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Hi Michael, as the error message states, in you have already an existing

.kube/config

file. The path is the one on Windows, so I guess you might have created a symlink on your Ubuntu distro that points to your Windows home (either the full home, or just

.kube

directory). That being said, in your Ubuntu distro, if you rename the

.kube

directory, you'll see that the box won't be grayed anymore in Rancher Desktop. Finally, due to this error, the docker socket is indeed not installed in your Ubuntu distro and that's why you can't run docker commands successfully

Thanks - I stopped rancher desktop, deleted

~./kube

and restarted rancher desktop. It recreated a fresh

~/.kube/config

but preferences>WSL still gave me the same error. I've tried changing rancher to the containerd instead of moby, but

nerdctl

also gives me an error inside WSL. This has to do with no systemd, i believe.

FATA[0001] rootless containerd not running? (hint: use `containerd-rootless-setuptool.sh install` to start rootless containerd): stat /wslg/runtime-dir/containerd-rootless: no such file or directory