I'd like to remove WSL, since I don't really need two Linux shells on my machine. Is it possible to do this? If so, how would I go about doing it?
Você simplesmente executa o seguinte comando em um prompt elevado do PowerShell.
lxrun /uninstall /full
If you upgrade to Windows 10 Fall Creators Update from an earlier Windows 10 release upon which you installed WSL, your existing distro will remain intact. However, we STRONGLY encourage you to install a new Store-delivered distro ASAP and migrate any necessary files, data, etc. from your legacy distro to your new distro. To remove the legacy distro from your machine, run the following from a Command Line or PowerShell instance
Você também pode remover a instância herdada manualmente, executando o seguinte comando em um prompt elevado do PowerShell.
rm -Recurse $env:localappdata/lxss/
If you wish, you can manually delete your legacy instance. This may be required if you encounter issues uninstalling the legacy distro using lxrun.exe, or are running Windows 10 Spring 2018 Update (or later) which do not ship with lxrun.exe.