WSL ubuntu in windows terminal and ls

Brief Intro

If you're reading this you're probably like me and develop on windows, it has served me right but I recently found out that you can't avoid Linux as a developer, configuring a dual boot solution was the go-to solution for this for a while. but that comes with some limitations, for one you can only use one at a time and that was not an option when I was developing a server that was almost complete on windows until I had to add caching and Redis is a Linux only solution. My options were to clone the project into a Linux environment or find a way to run limited Linux which would let me run the server in windows and Redis on Linux then I discovered the windows subsystem for linux (WSL) which allows you to run Linux in windows and have access to the Windows file system and a parallel Linux file system , that was perfect for my needs

The first step is installing wsl Run the simple command:

`wsl --install ` windows will do a bunch of stuff under the hood includind downloading a linux distro (latest ubuntu by default) see for more info and custom install instructions

Configuring windows terminal with WSL2 and ubuntu

you'll need a terminal to use linux bt sadly window's default offerings are less than desirable, that's why they made windows terminal download from windows store

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