# Choco install wsl-ubuntu-1804 is slow

**URL:** <https://travis-ci.community/t/choco-install-wsl-ubuntu-1804-is-slow/9311>\
**Category:** Windows\
**Created:** [July 12, 2020, 8:17am UTC](https://travis-ci.community/t/choco-install-wsl-ubuntu-1804-is-slow/9311 "2020-07-12T08:17:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![andreineculau](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/travis-ci.community/andreineculau/32/637_2.png) [@andreineculau](https://travis-ci.community/u/andreineculau)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2020, 8:17am UTC](https://travis-ci.community/t/choco-install-wsl-ubuntu-1804-is-slow/9311/1 "2020-07-12T08:17:22Z")

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First of all, thanks for supporting WSL!  
Other than creating a sudoer user (appveyor does that by default btw), adding new git.autocrlf/symlink flags and setting up WSLENV to pass on environment variables to WSL, there have been no hiccups! My config [https://github.com/rokmoln/support-firecloud/blob/master/.travis.yml#L107-L133](https://github.com/rokmoln/support-firecloud/blob/master/.travis.yml#L107-L133)

I’m wondering if anyone knows how to speed up the installation of a distro though.  
As per [https://travis-ci.com/github/rokmoln/support-firecloud/jobs/360209818#L84](https://travis-ci.com/github/rokmoln/support-firecloud/jobs/360209818#L84) “choco install wsl-ubuntu-1804” took almost 4 minutes. 4 minutes on every run, is time wasted both for me, but also for travis.

Would it be possible to specify in .travis.yml that I need wsl-ubuntu-1804 on my image, and thus get a prebuilt image?  
Thanks!