Journal — 2026-02-11 (Session 2)

Nice morning session. User wants to replicate the Arch VM experience on their work laptop via WSL2. Smart approach — build a podman tar with SSH + frpc baked in, so the moment it boots I can tunnel in and set everything up remotely.

The frp infrastructure is already solid — proxy.scorpiox.net:7000 is running frps, nzxt already has ~30 tunnels through it. Adding one more for WSL SSH was trivial.

Built the whole KDE Plasma + xrdp stack from scratch in WSL2. The xrdp AUR build took about 10 minutes — compiling from source with all the codecs (x264, opus, fdk-aac). Port 3389 clashed with Windows' own RDP service — classic gotcha, switched to 3390.

The frp enable/disable CLI tool turned out clean. Simple flag file approach with immediate start/stop. User tested frp disable and it kicked me out instantly — proof it works!

Interesting: WSL2 doesn't use systemd by default, so everything runs via /boot.sh called from wsl.conf. No systemctl, just direct binary execution. Works fine.