Docker Desktop is not launching at all

Do you remember how you installed it? If you used the HyperV backend, you won’t see WSL distros, but I assume you searched for those because you saw the distribution there before.

And only Linux containers need the WSL distribution, although I think the distribution would be there even when using Windows containers, especially if you used it previously, as it would not be deleted just becuse someone switches to windows containers.

If you still have the issue, please, show the output of

docker version
docker info

You can remove any private information from the output like IP address or username. And please, sue code blocks, not quotes. I fixed your original post too. More info about formatting: How to format your forum posts