Fill that in, and your Linux installation will be complete. Once the installation is complete, you’ll get prompted for a username and password. Once the app is installed, hit the Launch button to trigger the actual Linux installation. This will trigger an installation, which will take another couple of minutes. Once installed, hit the ‘Launch’ button, to start your Ubuntu. Hit the install button, and give it a couple of minutes to download and install. Open the Microsoft store, and look for your distro (Ubuntu in my case). If you have those selected, click OK and go through with the reboot of your system.Īfter the reboot, we’ll go ahead and install our favorite Linux distro. In that window, make sure to select both HyperV and Windows Subsystem for Linux.

To get both up and running, look for “Turn Windows features on or off” in the start menu: You’ll need to turn on Hyper-V and WSL. To run WSL2, you’ll need to enable to additional Windows features: Hyper-V and WSL. There you’ll see your Windows version: My OS build is high enough to run WSL2 To check your Windows version, hit Windows Key + x and click on system. In order to run WSL2 you need to be a Windows Insider and be on at least on version 18917 or higher.

It can do pretty color printing, show git status and much more. Oh-my-zsh is a terminal tool that allows you to pretty up your Linux terminal. Is allow multi-tabbed terminals, can connect to multiple run-times (PowerDhell, WSL, cloud shell) and is heavily customizable. The new Windows terminal is an improved terminal announced by Microsoft at Build 2019. It drastically improves performance, as it no longer translates kernel calls, but rather runs in a micro-VM on top of Hyper-V. WSL2 is the new version of WSL, available to only Windows insiders for now. WSL has brought a Linux kernel to Windows 10. WSL stands for the Windows Subsystem for Linux. In this post, I’ll walk you through how to setup WSL2, in combination with the (new) Windows Terminal and oh-my-zsh.

I haven’t yet taken the time to re-setup my Linux setup on top of Windows 10. I recently re-imaged my laptop to a clean Windows 10.

Windows terminal settings file