Base Interpreter in Pycharm doesn't show Python from Windows Subsystem for Linux [Ubuntu 20.04]

Question

I am trying to create a project in my WSL-Ubuntu20.04 (WSL-2) through the Pycharm Professional. And, when I select my desired directory in WSL and choose Virtualenv from Environment settings, there is something wrong in the Base interpreter setting. It can't detect the Python interpreter from WSl-Ubuntu20.04, rather it shows all the existing interpreters from my Windows 10 (2004) machine.

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• I have already added the valid and working WSL://UBUNTU2004/usr/bin/python interpreter from the setting in Pycharm.
• I am using Ubuntu 20.04 in WSL-v2 on top of Windows 10 build 2004

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Answer 1

Creating virtual environments with WSL is not supported yet, please vote here https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-32853 (thumbs up near the title)