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well i believe when you do the WSL integration function it will add the stubs to the other distribution. possibly that is causing an issue. whats the error you are seeing in the other distro you are trying to connect? any networking workarounds like wsl-vpnkit at play?

I did something really stupid.... I did install nerdctl in my linux distro. after removing it everything worked well.

The

nerdctl

from Rancher Desktop is magical. It proxies its commands to the real

nerdctl

handler inside their VM, at least, in general that's what it does. Certainly for macOS/lima. So, using anyone else's

nerdctl

would result in a failure.

Yes, it is the same on Windows:

jan@DESKTOP-4992680:/mnt/z/rd/bats$ head -5 "$(which nerdctl)"
#!/bin/sh

if grep -q -i 'microsoft.*wsl' /proc/version; then
  exec /mnt/wsl/rancher-desktop/bin/nerdctl "$@"
else