Developing on Windows with WSL2 (Subsystem for Linux), VS Code, Docker, and the Terminal

Developing on Windows with WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux), VS Code, Docker, and the Windows Terminal

[nrzul]

It's the year of Linux on the Desktop... Brought to you by windows... What a time to be alive.

[kdietz]

The start of the video is like an AA meeting. "Hi, my name is Scott and I'm a Windows developer". Audience refrain ... "Hiiii Scoootttt"

I'm not exactly sure how I got here. I was raised in a good home. My parents taught me right from wrong. My professors used UNIX. I was taught to treat everything as a file, have redirectable I/O, compose command line programs into small, reusable pieces, give everything a man page, have instant access to ssh, and use a resizable command shell with mutliple tabs and panes that gave me a full suite of OS tools and used a Turing complete command line interface. I knew all of those things. Then my parents got divorced when I was in high school and I felt kind lost. Like I didn't belong anywhere. Started hanging out with the wrong crowd. I saw a friend of mine using Windows 95 and he asked me if I wanted to try it. I still remember that first taste. God it tasted so bad.But I was just mesmorized. It's all a blur after that. The blue screen of deaths got so bad I had to start hiding my laptops in the back of my underwear drawer. It was just a downward spiral. Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, XP, and then, oh God, Vista!!! I just couldn't find my way back.

[MrChickenpoulet]

This is really amazing ! Even though I am (and I guess I'll stay) on linux, I find this evolution amazing.
The microsoft team did an awesome work on WSL, the new console, vscode and so on !

[xggbrnr]

I can't thank you enough for this. Long-time software engineer, just started diving into the Windows 10 WSL2. Excellent overview here. Thanks a lot.

[dinhof]

After roughly my entire backend development career working on osx, I'm giving this a try on a new cheaper and more powerful notebook.

I'm honestly excited to have access to games and other great software on my dev machine.

Well played, Microsoft.

[reachsatish]

Scott, thanks for the vid. I have been using WSL at home and it is wonderful to get the best of both worlds. I have stopped thinking about switching Mac. Keep those videos coming.

[Tout-Le-Monde]

The most informative, well-explained video on WSL I have seen so far ....

Damn dude. I've been searching for an easy explanation about WSL2 and yours is so far the easiest to follow. Well done!.

[xC-dbst]

Switching from writing code on macOS to Windows after almost 6 years. This video was really useful and informative. Thank you, I've subscribed 👏👏

[AndrewKwabula]

Thank you, Scott. You are an absolute legend. I went through Microsoft's explanation of WSL but it remained greek to me. You broke it into tiny pieces and explained every piece by doing.

[benfeisttoronto]

Great stuff, scott. Thanks for getting me started with all of this. I can't believe I'm running my python processors on linux on my windows computer. All of the reasons I prefer mac for python just went away.

[BrandonSchenz]

Thank you for this walk through. Love you Scott!

[robl]

Scott - thanks for turning me on to the new Windows Terminal! I love it.

[gaius_marius]

Thanks Scott, very informative video. I've been using WSL for Linux development for a while now. I mainly do Java back-end and scripting stuff, so WSL1 works great for me. I switched to the new Windows Terminal and I'm very happy with it. Creating new color schemes is a bit difficult, but I like the ones that it ships with well enough.

[kenchang]

THIS IS GREAT!!! Thank you very much. It pretty much describes what I had in my head and now I know it can be done, and very easily thanks to you.

[greggard]

just wanted to say my thanks for putting this up and keep them coming.

[mike-barber]

This is going to be awesome! Thanks for the video. I can't wait for my corporate bureaucrats to update from 1803 so I can get started with this stuff; as it is currently, I'm running Docker in Linux on VirtualBox, and scraping by using VS Code Remote (ssh). WSL2 will definitely make my life quite a bit easier.

[paolo_in_corsivo]

Thankyou so much! a very useful video. This is the kind of setup that I was already about to set to my everyday working environment, but the multi-tab-multi-machine shell interface will bring it to new hights

[matthewzecchini]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and having a positive impact on the community.

[garrettkim]

This is awesome. I've been using WSL and the stable version of Docker so I couldn't access my containers via linux. Gonna install the technical preview tonight.