- install from microsoft store:
- debian/WSL2
- windows terminal
- check at https://aka.ms/wsl2 for how to set that up. Requires a reboot, or else you won't get WSL2 to work and jupyter will be so slow as to be barely usable.
- today (2021-08-18) there were a couple new 'wrinkles':
- I had to manually 'decompress' the app dir
- I had to fix /etc/apt/sources.list to be proper debian 11 bullseye
- I was going to build latest python3.9.6 from source ( which did work) but decided to just stay with the version in debian 11, since it wasn't that old (3.9.2), hence the long apt-get install line.
- this setup follows the rule that its better to use pip in a virtualenv than it is to try to get things installed via system package, especially for jupyter lab.
- node installation is actually as suggested by MSFT, nvm is quite nice.