Failed to connect to local tailscaled

Hello

I am brand new to linux and tailscale and doing this sort of stuff in general, so please explain any answers to me as if I were a golden retriever ...thanks!

I am running ubuntu 20.04 on windows 10. I downloaded it from the microsoft store (https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9pdxgncfsczv?rtc=1&hl=en-us&gl=US). I then installed tailscale (or tried to) following this page (curl -fsSL https://tailscale.com/install.sh | sh) (tried both the manual and automated way). When I tried the sudo tailscale up I got: failed to connect to local tailscaled; it doesn't appear to be running (sudo systemctl start tailscaled ?)

Now for what I have tried.

I tried updating my clock settings as recommended here: https://github.com/beringresearch/macpine/issues/170

I tried this but I can't find the appropriate file path: https://tailscale.com/kb/1130/lxc-unprivileged

And I don't fully understand what this one is saying: https://tailscale.com/kb/1112/userspace-networking

I tried sudo tailscale up --accept-dns=false as recommended here: https://forum.tailscale.com/t/failed-to-connect-to-local-tailscaled/2891

I am thinking it may be something to do with /dev/tun because I have seen that tossed around a lot in my research. However, I do not know what that is nor do I know how to modify that.

Again, I apologize for my inevitable "can you break that down for me" but, everyone has to start somewhere, right?