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title: Setup WSL 🪟 ❤️ 🐧
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date: 2022-02-23T11:57:08Z
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author: "ahmza"
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tags: ["windows", "linux", "wsl"]
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---
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## **Introduction**
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WSL stands for *Windows Subsystem for Linux* which means we have the
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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.
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## **Prerequisites**
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* Enable virtualisation in BIOS
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## **Setup**
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Open Powershell in Administrator mode
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``` powershell
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wsl --install
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```
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> 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
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to use the "Ubuntu" distro.
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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.
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And that's it you have WSL and a Linux distribution setup, now go and do
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something awesome.
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## **Optional**
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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.
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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
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``` powershell
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\\wsl$\Ubuntu\home\ahmza
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```
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> Be sure to change "Ubuntu" to your distributions name
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> Be sure to change "ahmza" to your username
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## **Conclusion**
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Well done you have managed to setup WSL and use Linux inside of windows.
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No go and enjoy the freedom of Linux !!
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