diff --git a/pkg/minikube/driver/driver.go b/pkg/minikube/driver/driver.go
index c2adf3815e42db6b75622cb92f94f54580fdf1c9..9f97058218d4311a95350a4e57dc7335c50b5c7c 100644
--- a/pkg/minikube/driver/driver.go
+++ b/pkg/minikube/driver/driver.go
@@ -136,8 +136,9 @@ func NeedsPortForward(name string) bool {
 
 // isMicrosoftWSL will return true if process is running in WSL in windows
 // checking for WSL env var based on this https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/423#issuecomment-608237689
+// also based on https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/master/resources/win32/bin/code.sh#L24
 func isMicrosoftWSL() bool {
-	return os.Getenv("WSL_DISTRO_NAME") != ""
+	return os.Getenv("WSL_DISTRO_NAME") != "" || os.Getenv("WSLPATH") != "" || os.Getenv("WSLENV") != ""
 }
 
 // HasResourceLimits returns true if driver can set resource limits such as memory size or CPU count.