I Tried Running WSL 2 on Windows 11 for AI Work. Here's Why I Gave Up. I have a Windows 11 mini PC (AMD HX370, 96GB RAM) that I use for running embodied AI experiments — MuJoCo, Genesis simulations, and local LLM inference via LM Studio. My daily driver for automation is an AI assistant (Hermes) running on a Linux server. I talk to it via Telegram. It works great — I say "run a cartpole demo" and it SSHes into my Windows machine and executes the code. But I wanted more: I wanted the Windows machine to be self-automating . Respond to commands directly, without me acting as the SSH middleman every time. My AI assistant needs Linux. My machine is Windows 11. The obvious answer: WSL 2 . This is the story of why WSL 2 didn't work, and why I eventually gave up on it.…