Allow environment variable WSL_DISTRO_NAME. #21047
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Visual Studio Code, when run from WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) uses WSL_DISTRO_NAME presence to detect it. When it fails to do so its spawn the GUI instead of running the CLI application.
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Perfect implementation first time, thanks and great work @pcastellazzi!
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Visual Studio Code, when run from WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) uses WSL_DISTRO_NAME presence to detect it. When it fails to do so its spawn the GUI instead of running the CLI application.
Fixes: #21037
brew lgtm(style, typechecking and tests) with your changes locally?