wsl2.md

Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2)

WSL lets you install Linux terminal and run it within Windows. It's not 100% identical to running a dedicated Linux box, but it's super iseful and helpful for day-to-day tasks when in Windows and doens't require a VM. I run Ubuntu and Debian.

Set up Ubuntu

The WSL Docs will contain the latest set up and isntall steps to get Ubuntu on your machine. Personal to me I like to set up the following:

• Git
  • git config --global user.name = "Me"
  • git config --global user.email = "[email protected]"
  • New SSH key: ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "[email protected]"
• Oh-my-zsh
  • Install zsh
  • Install oh-my-zsh
  • zsh autosuggestions
  • zsh-syntax-highlighting
  • Powershell 10k (zsh)
• rbenv
  • Install
  • rbenv install -l (list lasted ruby versions)
  • rbenv global 3.1.1
• tfenv
  • Install
  • sudo apt install unzip
  • tfenv install 1.1.8
  • tfenv use 1.1.8

Notify-Send replacement

notify-send is a little tool to send a notification from your terminal. Stuart Leeks has written a tool to get this working in WSL2 and sending a notification to the Windows Toast notification.

Handy for long-running processes, when I want to know if they're finished, e.g.:

terraform apply --auto-approve; notify-send "Terraform apply complete"

Links

• WSL Docs
• New SSH key - add to SSH agent
• Oh-mh-zsh
• rbenv Digital Ocean guide