Windows WSL Dev

notes.md

Requirements

• Install WSL
  • Run from Admin Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux
  • Restart
  • Install Linux Distr from Microsoft Store
• Git
  • Download exe from https://github.com/andy-5/wslgit
  • Put file into %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Common, rename to git.exe
  • Add path to PATH env variable
• Terminal
  • Install Hyper https://hyper.is/
  • Install Fish shell https://fishshell.com/
  • Change shell for hyper to C:\\Windows\\System32\\bash.exe
  • Edit ~/.bashrc, add bash -c fish
• IDE
  • Install VSCode https://code.visualstudio.com/

Optional

• Disable Realtime protection to improve perfomance for directory %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\CanonicalGroupLimited.UbuntuonWindows_<hash> if you install ubuntu distr

TODO

• setting vscode as git commit message editor
  • microsoft/vscode#27101
  • https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/versioncontrol#_vs-code-as-git-editor
  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30024353/how-to-use-visual-studio-code-as-default-editor-for-git
• Fish config
• git aliases

Usefull links

• https://gist.github.com/Voronoff/059c50f9fd354386c305c55af1f3a61f