Due to my gaming habbits, I am still a Windows user.

But sometimes, some things just are more elegant in Linux, or some tools are not available to Windows at all. So I was quite happy when I discovered WSL, as it allowed me to run linux commands on my Windows file system without switching back and forth to a dual boot Linux.

Installation

Running Windows 10.

• First, you have to enable the Windows feature "Windows Subsystem for Linux". This can be done either in the settings dialog or using the following command in the Admin-PowerShell:

    Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux

• Next, you have to install a Linux distribution (e.g. Ubuntu 18.04). This is either done using the Windows store, or again using the Admin-PowerShell:

    Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://aka.ms/wsl-ubuntu-1804 -OutFile Ubuntu.appx -UseBasicParsing
    Add-AppxPackage .\Ubuntu.appx

• In command line run wsl (or specifically wsl -d Ubuntu-18.04) which will initialize the linux environment and start a shell.

• Note: wsl --list shows all installed distros.

Setup (optional)

# Ubuntu Setup ##################################
sudo -s
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade --with-new-pkgs
apt-get upgrade autoremove

Just my usual setup steps for my own mind:

TexLive (web), php7.0

apt-get install php7.0

Todo: nvm, node, lighthouse, sdk, composer, git, pdfnup/*join, ffmpeg, convert, openssh, telnet, imapdump

References

• (en) https://www.windowscentral.com/install-windows-subsystem-linux-windows-10 (Archive)
• (en) https://docs.microsoft.com/de-de/windows/wsl/install-manual (Archive)