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Prerequisites Enable virtualisation in BIOS Setup Open Powershell in Administrator mode
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wsl --install You may be required to restart the device, I Highly recommend you do
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Go to the Microsoft store and search for a Linux distribution. I prefer to use the “Ubuntu” distro."><meta name=author content="ahmza"><link rel=canonical href=https://blog.ahmza.com/Page%28/posts/setup-wsl.md%29><link crossorigin=anonymous href=/assets/css/stylesheet.49e35863ac4b53ab71c7e3249dd5e722c701ee07f8d0cb006a4f4e954364b6fe.css integrity="sha256-SeNYY6xLU6txx+MkndXnIscB7gf40MsAak9OlUNktv4=" rel="preload stylesheet" as=style><script defer crossorigin=anonymous src=/assets/js/highlight.f413e19d0714851f6474e7ee9632408e58ac146fbdbe62747134bea2fa3415e0.js integrity="sha256-9BPhnQcUhR9kdOfuljJAjlisFG+9vmJ0cTS+ovo0FeA=" onload=hljs.initHighlightingOnLoad()></script><link rel=icon href=https://blog.ahmza.com/img/favicon.png><link rel=icon type=image/png sizes=16x16 href=https://blog.ahmza.com/img/favicon.png><link rel=icon type=image/png sizes=32x32 href=https://blog.ahmza.com/img/favicon.png><link rel=apple-touch-icon href=https://blog.ahmza.com/img/favicon.png><link rel=mask-icon href=https://blog.ahmza.com/img/favicon.png><meta name=theme-color content="#2e2e33"><meta name=msapplication-TileColor content="#2e2e33"><noscript><style>#theme-toggle,.top-link{display:none}</style></noscript><script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-HSJHLHP8FZ"></script><script>var doNotTrack=!1;if(!doNotTrack){window.dataLayer=window.dataLayer||[];function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments)}gtag("js",new Date),gtag("config","G-HSJHLHP8FZ",{anonymize_ip:!1})}</script><meta property="og:title" content="Setup WSL 🪟 ❤️ 🐧"><meta property="og:description" content="Introduction WSL stands for Windows Subsystem for Linux which means we have the Linux kernel inside of windows. This is huge news for developers or people who just want to try Linux.
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Prerequisites Enable virtualisation in BIOS Setup Open Powershell in Administrator mode
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wsl --install You may be required to restart the device, I Highly recommend you do
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Go to the Microsoft store and search for a Linux distribution. I prefer to use the “Ubuntu” distro."><meta property="og:type" content="article"><meta property="og:url" content="https://blog.ahmza.com/posts/setup-wsl/"><meta property="og:image" content="https://blog.ahmza.com/webp/posts/wsl/feature-anim.webp"><meta property="article:section" content="posts"><meta property="article:published_time" content="2022-02-23T11:57:08+00:00"><meta property="article:modified_time" content="2022-02-23T11:57:08+00:00"><meta property="og:site_name" content="ahmza's ramblings"><meta name=twitter:card content="summary_large_image"><meta name=twitter:image content="https://blog.ahmza.com/webp/posts/wsl/feature-anim.webp"><meta name=twitter:title content="Setup WSL 🪟 ❤️ 🐧"><meta name=twitter:description content="Introduction WSL stands for Windows Subsystem for Linux which means we have the Linux kernel inside of windows. This is huge news for developers or people who just want to try Linux.
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wsl --install You may be required to restart the device, I Highly recommend you do
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Linux kernel inside of windows. This is huge news for developers or people
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who just want to try Linux.</p><h2 id=prerequisites><strong>Prerequisites</strong><a hidden class=anchor aria-hidden=true href=#prerequisites>#</a></h2><ul><li>Enable virtualisation in BIOS</li></ul><h2 id=setup><strong>Setup</strong><a hidden class=anchor aria-hidden=true href=#setup>#</a></h2><p>Open Powershell in Administrator mode</p><div class=highlight><pre tabindex=0 class=chroma><code class=language-powershell data-lang=powershell><span class=line><span class=cl><span class=n>wsl</span> <span class=p>-</span><span class=n>-install</span>
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</span></span></code></pre></div><blockquote><p>You may be required to restart the device, I Highly recommend you do</p></blockquote><p>Go to the Microsoft store and search for a Linux distribution. I prefer
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to use the “Ubuntu” distro.</p><p><img loading=lazy src=/img/WSL/ubuntu.webp alt="Microsoft Store"></p><p>Once that is installed, go ahead and run the distribution, after it
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finishes setting itself up it will ask you for a username and password.
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These credentials are separate from the host system so you can make them
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whatever you want.</p><p>And that’s it you have WSL and a Linux distribution setup, now go and do
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something awesome.</p><h2 id=optional><strong>Optional</strong><a hidden class=anchor aria-hidden=true href=#optional>#</a></h2><p>I use the windows terminal app to run the Ubuntu distribution, it makes
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customising the environment a lot easier. To download it head over to the
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Microsoft store and search for Windows Terminal and download it.</p><p><img loading=lazy src=/img/WSL/winterm.webp alt="Microsoft Store"></p><p>When you login to WSL it will not default to your home directory which gets
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very annoying. So to fix that go to Windows Terminal Settings (Be sure to
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look around there are some cool features) look for Ubuntu or your
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distributions name and change the Starting directory to</p><div class=highlight><pre tabindex=0 class=chroma><code class=language-powershell data-lang=powershell><span class=line><span class=cl><span class=p>\\</span><span class=n>wsl</span><span class=p>$\</span><span class=n>Ubuntu</span><span class=p>\</span><span class=n>home</span><span class=p>\</span><span class=n>ahmza</span>
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</span></span></code></pre></div><blockquote><p>Be sure to change “Ubuntu” to your distributions name</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>Be sure to change “ahmza” to your username</p></blockquote><p><img loading=lazy src=/img/WSL/winterm-settings.webp alt=winterm-settings></p><h2 id=conclusion><strong>Conclusion</strong><a hidden class=anchor aria-hidden=true href=#conclusion>#</a></h2><p>Well done you have managed to setup WSL and use Linux inside of windows.
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