Windows 10: sshing to localhost WSL2 is unstable at best. misery and despair

I have a wsl issue that's been driving me mad for weeks: when booting the pc, there's a big chance that ssh connections to wsl won't be operational until one or more reboots. I get a Connection refused error.
I went through lots and lots of similar github issues, but none of them really went anywhere.
I think my localhost forwarding is fine, because I can access a wsl http server (python3 -m http.server 8080) from the browser on Windows (http://localhost:8080/). VSCode's remote development works fine too, it uses a custom server.
I have Bitdefender's firewall enabled, and while currently there's a bug that breaks ICMP ping to localhost when the firewall is enabled, everything works the same with it either being on or off. Network level interferences are usually logged, no entries are created, so maybe it can be excluded.

My ssh has been configured by this script, I see no obscure things there. I use ssh through CLion to do cross platform C development and it's amazing, when it works.
sshd_config:
Code:

I'm an IT student, but I'm not an experienced Linux user. My vm is using Ubuntu 20.04, regularly updated.

Some people have mentioned that localhost is resolved to ::1 on windows, and Ubuntu is expecting a IPv4 address instead. I'm not too sure about that.. This setup occasionally does work.

I'm pretty much lost and I don't know what to think of anymore.
Windows 10 Pro 20H2 19042.630

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WSL2 for windows

I have failed into installing WSL for Windows. I have read here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win.../install-win10 how to do it, and at step 4:

1. Download the latest package:
   
   • WSL2 Linux kernel update package for x64 machines
   [COLOR=var(--text)][COLOR=var(--info-dark)] Note[/COLOR]
   If you're using an ARM64 machine, please download the ARM64 package instead. If you're not sure what kind of machine you have, open Command Prompt or PowerShell and enter: systeminfo | find "System Type".
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2. Run the update package downloaded in the previous step. (Double-click to run - you will be prompted for elevated permissions, select ‘yes’ to approve this installation.)

I encountered:





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What I did wrong ? I have the following W10 version:




Another question: am I in the the right forum ?

 

Access localhost from another computer

Localhost, as the name suggests, points at the localhost. Use the hostname or IP from your computer on their PC's. ie something in the 192.168.x.x or 10.0.0.x range most likely.

 

WSL2 and Environment Variables

I am trying to install Selenium and build a python application that includes automating web page completion (login info). I would like to built the program using VSCode and WSL2. I've installed selenium in WSL2. Selenium requires a webdriver api to
be installed and included on the system PATH in the environment variables. If I install the msedgedriver.exe for Windows, in Windows, and add it to PATH, will it work with Selenium installed on WSL2 in VSCode using Python?