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Ubuntu Architecture showing "arm64" with Intel CPU for WSL

I installed WSL Ubuntu 20.04 on my PC with wsl --install. Then I read the System Architecture info in the Microsoft Store for Ubuntu, and it says "arm64". However, the CPU is Intel 12900K. Shouldn’t it be "amd64"?

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>Solution :

It says:

Architecture: arm64 x64

Meaning it will run on either ARM or x64 (Intel/AMD). That’s not to say it’s platform independent. Technically, of course, it’s a different package that gets installed for each architecture depending on your system.

In your case, of course, it’s running x64 (a.k.a. x86_64). You can confirm this from within Ubuntu by running uname -a:

Linux Revel 5.10.60.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 #1 SMP Wed Aug 25 23:20:18 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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