Will the installed programs be deleted when I uninstalled Windows subsystem?

Question

[Wenhu_Cao]

I am a new fish learning bioinformatics along with the biostar handbook, I have installed the bash on windows and some programs on the subsystem. I found there are some problems I didn't notice from scratch. Now I would like to uninstall the subsystem, however I am not sure if this could also delete all the programs installed. That is to say, just come back to 0, like nothing happened?

Thanks!

[GenoMax]

Try it (some directions on how here) and let us know. If you had made a separate directory to install some of the programs you may have to manually delete it.

Answer 1

[Istvan Albert]

In general, you'd want to do a full reset on everything. Otherwise, it is not clear what effect a partial removal would have. It may cause all kinds of new trouble.

Thankfully the install is well documented - but I agree that it has a bit too many steps.

That being said the conda based installation as presented in the Handbook is much much easier than what a typical process used to be as little as two years ago where everything had to be compiled from scratch.

[Wenhu_Cao]

Do you mean that I only need to set up the computer from scratch without the need to remove the previous subsystem and softwares?

[Istvan Albert]

I am not sure what you mean by "set up from scratch". This terminology typically means a complete reinstall after wiping off all new information.

As to my answer, what I meant is that you'd have to remove the Linux subsystem then reinstall it.