Not so easy way to figure out, but there is a way to have multiple wsl instances.

Assuming you do not have any distributions installed (check via wsl --list -v), install the clean one:

wsl --install Ubuntu-22.04

  1. Enter the instance and do the necessary configuration (it’ll be the default for your instances)

  2. Then, export the instance

wsl --export Ubuntu-22.04 c:\dev\wsl\wsl-clean-instance-ubuntu2204
  1. If you like to create a new instance, type:
wsl --import myinstance c:\dev\wsl\instances\myinstance c:\dev\wsl\wsl-clean-instance-ubuntu2204

and enter into instance:

wsl -d myinstance -u myusername

where myusername is the user name you entered in 1.