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be doing today is installing some native Linux applications within Windows. And we're going
to be doing this by installing and enabling the windows subsystem for Linux. What this is going
to do is provide a compatibility environment, this lizard is freaking out and messing
up the audio. Its name is Henry, though. Hi Henry. What this is going to do is provide a
compatibility environment that will allow us to run both these Linux GUI applications Linux CLI
as well, and Windows applications side by side. And once you've done that, what we're going to do
is go in and click on the Start menu. And then I'm going to search up the terminal, right click Run
as administrator, and we're going to say yes, now when you are in here, all we need to type in is
'wsl.exe --install'. And what this is going to do is begin installing the windows subsystem for
Linux. And you can see what it's doing. It's installing the virtual machine platform subsystem,
the WsL kernel, and the WsL kernel is how you're going to kind of be able to interact with a
Linux kernel directly from your Windows system, without even necessarily needing to be directly
in one of these virtual distributions. So the changes will not be effective until the system is
rebooted. So what we're going to do is go ahead and close this out and reboot our system. And
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our system here. And the first thing that you are going to see is this little boon to command
prompt, what we're going to want to do is create our username and password for the Unix profile.
So this, I'm gonna go with Brandon. And then for our password, just make sure it's something super
strong, complicated and secure. And there we go. This is now Ubuntu. Let's see if we have top
installed you can see right here, what is going on in this specific virtual environment. If I go
in and close out of here, I could always re access this by opening this up searching for Ubuntu you
can see it as a separate app there. And here we are, once again in Ubuntu. Now what I actually
want to do real quick is launch this through the windows terminal. And if we open up this terminal
and go next, the tabs here hit the down arrow, we can actually open Ubuntu right here. So let's
open up that new Ubuntu instance. And now we have this in our windows terminal. And then
just to check let's see if it has Neo fetch, it does not so being that we are in Ubuntu,
we just do a sudo apt install Neo fetch, hit enter type in our password. I forgot the very
most important thing with dealing with Ubuntu is make sure you run a sudo apt update before
you do anything else. There we go. We have a lot of packages available, but now we should be
able to get Neo fetch. Yep, there we go. Let's install it. All right, now let's run Neofetch. And
we can see here we are running Ubuntu 20.04. lts, this is the five point 10 kernel. And it's
seeing all my proper system specifications, by default is giving us half of the total
amount of system RAM I currently have available. Now one thing I want to do is show you guys
that using WsL, you can actually interact with the Windows system, so I don't have to be in this
specific boon to terminal. If I go back over here to the PowerShell. And let's say for example,
I wanted to print my current working directory, that is PWD. I can hit enter you can see that
prints my current Windows directory, which is C users and then my name. Now if I wanted to do
this as a Linux command, all I would do is W S L So Windows subsystem for Linux. And then let's
print the current working directory. Hit enter and you can see the directory looks a little bit
different. Instead of seeing my Windows location, I'm actually seeing where I currently am from a
Unix standpoint. So this Windows File System is mounted with Unix as Mount C users and then my
name and because Linux is actually seeing this mounted as a drive or a separate partition, it
is going to be really easy to interact with your Linux system from Windows or interact with Windows
from your Linux system. And one thing real quick, I want to backpedal a bit because there's other
Linux distributions that are just easily available to install through this. When we ran the install
command just installed it file is the latest LTS version of Ubuntu. But if we're interested
in seeing what we have available to us, we just do ws L dash dash plus dash dash on line,
hit enter, and we can see all of the distributions available to us. Now, let's say in addition to
Ubuntu, I also want a version of Debian or Debian on here, I will do is WsL dash dash install, and
dash D for distribution and then the distribution and in this case, I want to go ahead and grab
Debian. So let's hit enter. Now it's going to go ahead and download that set it all up. And
now you can see a new terminal opened up over here asking me to set up my Debian username
and password. So I'm just going to go with the same thing over here username, make sure your
passwords moderately decent, and the installation was successful. Now I could go in and close this
out, if I want to hit the down arrow once again. Oh, first, we need to close the terminal. So
I'm gonna close this terminal out completely Close all open up the windows terminal again. And
now if I bring this down here, I hit this little down arrow, you'll see I have the option for both
Ubuntu and Debian. Now what I'm going to do is go back into our Ubuntu instance and try to install
and launch just a normal GUI application. So for this, I'm just going to go ahead and grab G
at it. So let's do sudo apt install g edit, which is a pretty simple text editor. Type in
our password, give that a quick install. Alright, so now that that is done, finally installing every
single Linux package that has ever been compiled, we're going to just type in G edit, hit enter.
And then there we go. This right here is G edit. So you could type you could do whatever you would
normally do in G edit, open new tabs. And let's go to this tab. If I wanted to save this, you
can see right now I am in the mount si users, Brandon Hopkins, this is my Linux file system
right here. If I wanted to, I could go into home, Brandon. And this is my actual home directory for
the Linux system. So that's just a little example of a GUI application. And it has all the drivers
and everything. So if you open up a media player, for example, the Linux system is going to have
access to your speakers, your microphones, whatever it may be, the only times you may
run into issues is some unsupported like, I'll show you an example real quick sudo apt
install Gimp. Alright, so that's installed. So if I hit GIMP, open it up, we're going to get a whole
bunch of GTK issues here. But it's full GIMP, it's going to perform very well, it's going to work
exactly as it should. So if I, for example, let's say we wanted to Filter, Render lava, this is one
of the more strenuous processes hit OK, it's going to run through, do everything it needs to do and
it is done performance wise, it's there, it's very good. So you can close this out Disregard Changes.
And since we opened it up through the terminal, we could see all the different various errors and
whatnot that it had. But a really cool thing about this, if I open up the Start menu here, you can
see a lot of the Linux stuff, we have the canoe Image Manipulation Program. So it automatically
creates entries in our Start menu. So we can open up Linux applications directly from Windows.
Now what I'm gonna do real quick is go over to this window PowerShell terminal here and
tell you some of the other basic commands. Now if you want to update WsL, it's simply
just update this whole update. But if you have something that goes wrong, you could always add
the rollback suffix to this. So if you update, something's not working, right, you could
always rollback your updates, we can completely shut down all of our instances. So if I attempt
to shut down, that's what that would do. Now, by default, the the Ubuntu distribution is going
to be the default distribution. But if you prefer something else, you could always do set dash
default and then the name of the distro. So for example, if I wanted to, I could type in Debian.
Additionally, there's other commands such as the mount command, and then you'd put in whatever
you want them to mount. There is really a lot that you can do with this and depending on
your applications, you can have like VS code communicate with your Linux subsystem, and vice
versa. So real quick just to test I went ahead and installed Kate So if you want so you can open up
this application if this is something you prefer. And just like with GIMP, if I type in
Kate, I could go ahead and launch this through Ubuntu through my windows menu, some
super cool stuff. So that is a lot of what you could do with the Windows subsystem for Linux,
there's a lot more you could do. So what I'm going to do is link to some resources down below
including a list of all the possible commands all the distros things like that. So that will
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