diff --git a/src/config.ts b/src/config.ts
index 3af34dd3e7..afa7faa130 100644
--- a/src/config.ts
+++ b/src/config.ts
@@ -311,25 +311,25 @@ export class KubeConfig {
         }
         if (process.platform === 'win32' && shelljs.which('wsl.exe')) {
             try {
-                const envKubeconfigPathResult = execa.sync('wsl.exe', ['bash', '-ic', 'printenv KUBECONFIG']);
+                const envKubeconfigPathResult = execa.sync('wsl.exe', ['bash', '-c', 'printenv KUBECONFIG']);
                 if (envKubeconfigPathResult.exitCode === 0 && envKubeconfigPathResult.stdout.length > 0) {
                     const result = execa.sync('wsl.exe', ['cat', envKubeconfigPathResult.stdout]);
                     if (result.exitCode === 0) {
                         this.loadFromString(result.stdout, opts);
                         return;
                     }
-                    if (result.exitCode === 0) {
-                        this.loadFromString(result.stdout, opts);
-                        return;
-                    }
                 }
             } catch (err) {
                 // Falling back to default kubeconfig
             }
             try {
-                const result = execa.sync('wsl.exe', ['cat', '~/.kube/config']);
-                if (result.exitCode === 0) {
-                    this.loadFromString(result.stdout, opts);
+                const configResult = execa.sync('wsl.exe', ['cat', '~/.kube/config']);
+                if (configResult.exitCode === 0) {
+                    this.loadFromString(configResult.stdout, opts);
+                    const result = execa.sync('wsl.exe', ['wslpath', '-w', '~/.kube']);
+                    if (result.exitCode === 0) {
+                        this.makePathsAbsolute(result.stdout);
+                    }
                     return;
                 }
             } catch (err) {
diff --git a/src/exec.ts b/src/exec.ts
index 50a508537c..b51ec78706 100644
--- a/src/exec.ts
+++ b/src/exec.ts
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ export class Exec {
      * @param {boolean} tty - Should the command execute in a TTY enabled session.
      * @param {(V1Status) => void} statusCallback -
      *       A callback to received the status (e.g. exit code) from the command, optional.
-     * @return {string} This is the result
+     * @return {Promise<WebSocket>} A promise that will return the web socket created for this command.
      */
     public async exec(
         namespace: string,