I'm having issues getting Rancher Desktop to work on Windows 11. It "starts" in that I click on the icon from the Start menu, and then nothing… but it shows 3 related process running.

whats in

wsl -l -v

and does

rdctl

work?

Also, it does sometimes take a while to start up the first time on windows, especially if you're running in a VM. Did it finally start up? Did you kill the tasks (taskkill.exe /IM "Rancher Desktop.exe" /T /F` should do it) and try restarting?