Consider prompting the user during uninstall

[withinboredom]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

A WSL distro is installed with

wsl --install Ubuntu-22.04

However, it is uninstalled with

wsl --unregister Ubuntu-22.04

If you accidentally type:

wsl --uninstall Ubuntu-22.04

You're in for an exciting day.

Describe the solution you'd like

If extra arguments are provided, the command should error.

You provided a distro to WSL uninstallation, perhaps you meant --unregister?

Describe alternatives you've considered

• Prompt the user to make sure this is the intended action

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View similar issues

Please view the issues below to see if they solve your problem, and if the issue describes your problem please consider closing this one and thumbs upping the other issue to help us prioritize it!

Open similar issues:

• Warning before unregistering (#7049), similarity score: 0.74
• wsl --unregister should warn users that their data will be permanently deleted. (#9932), similarity score: 0.73
• WSL should at least very verbosely warn that distro unregister will destroy /home (#8466), similarity score: 0.71

Closed similar issues:

• Remove wsl --unregister DISTRO_NAME from the recommended commands to be run when "something goes wrong" (#9049), similarity score: 0.72

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