Seamless Linux environment in Windows, WSL for web developers

It’s definetely a treat to have best of both worlds at once place. Thanks to Microsoft , the developers dreams have come true now .

And its pretty straight forward if you want to install the WSL (Windows subsystem for linux)

Install WSL on windows 10 or above using,

wsl --install

After installation you will be prompted to create a user, create the user and set your password

Configure default user

ubuntu config --default-user new_user_name

How to set default user for manually installed WSL distro?

I have installed vscode in my windows from the microsoft app store. Now when i want to start a web development project in my ubuntu , I open up the terminal and hit!

code .

Create a projects directory and check if you can see it in the file browser

I’ll be installing a tiny 28MB utility on ubuntu , just to check the windowing system,

Install mate-system-monitor

sudo apt install mate-system-monitor

Launch it by running mate-system-monitor

You will have a process/task manager show up.

Enjoy! Have fun with it.