Windows Terminal and WSL 2 tips

The Microsoft Windows Terminal is here! Fantastic development. In this video I show you both WSL 2 tips and tricks and show you how you can use the Microsoft Windows Terminal to interact with WSL 2 Virtual Machines (Ubuntu 20.04) and others. It's so easy now to have a tabbed application that supports Powershell, Command Prompt, Azure, WSL 2, SSH, Telnet and other applications.

Windows Terminal supports a lot of customization - you can change fonts, colors, background images and a whole bunch of other options.

wsl2 is a fantastic Microsoft Windows 10 development: You can run Linux directly on Windows using the windows subsystem for linux. In this video I demonstrate ubuntu 20.04 and 18.04 using wsl2.

Menu:
Overview: 0:00
Windows Terminal Install: 0:51
Windows Terminal Overview: 1:27
Docker Integration: 2:46
Settings: 4:46
Access Windows files from Linux: 5:26
Access Linux files from Windows Explorer: 7:31
Use VSCode to open Linux Subsystem Files: 9:34

Previous videos:

Documentation:

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[davidbombal]

Menu:
Overview: 0:00
Windows Terminal Install: 0:51
Windows Terminal Overview: 1:27
Docker Integration: 2:46
Settings: 4:46
Access Windows files from Linux: 5:26
Access Linux files from Windows Explorer: 7:31
Use VSCode to open Linux Subsystem Files: 9:34

Previous videos:

Documentation:

[alexlun]

no bloody way, I really needed a video tutorial like this right now and you uploaded one JUST NOW. Talk about timing.

[AntonioAndrade]

Nice, I learned something new today: I can see the WSL2 in the explorer. Thanks!

[ShahabSheikhzadeh]

I've just started a YouTube channel providing educational content. Your demos are crazy clean and impressive. I'm jealous and have a new goal to aspire to. You rock :)

[dulanjala]

all the things in this video are things i know about but i kept watching the video since it was directly to point, but will all the details necessary... it felt like talking to a passionate developer rather than a content creator, no extras to make longer videos or any other nonsense, or clickbait titles... keep up the good work...

[patrickimoh]

Another lovely video... I've learnt a lot...Thanks David...

[Zippo_]

Thank you so much for making these videos on wsl2. They help me a great deal

[giovannifranzese]

Thx David! Great video, detailed and clearly exposed. Congrats. And also congrats to Windows... as linux users I could have never imaged one day this integration could have been never happened :-)

[DrillManga]

Thanks David. Windows Terminal is a beast for sure - so convenient.

[ronmitchell]

Thanks David another great video. love to see a video on Terminal settings tips.

[jamesdietsch]

Great video David! Amazing what you can now do with wsl2 and terminal. Would love to see more of what you can do terminal with customisation etc

[SubodhKumar-qbze]

Thank you very much. started learning many things from you which I wanted to learn. Thank you again.

[TippitoWOW]

David! you deserve kudos and thanks for every video you share with us!

[karmatsering]

Good content and very professional. lots of thanks

[himalayasinghsheoran]

Thank you for this tutorial. It was really helpful :)

[RJMeix]

The goodies started at 5:30 for me.. Note: I learned you have to add VS Code to the system Path to use that 'code' command, just in case someone else here has an issue with it not working. Cheers

[PS_Tube]

This video is quite an example of inception.

[iGladyator]

Love these tutorials, straight to the point! No blabbing for hours!

[techymoh]

Upon opening Windows Terminal, we can tweak the config file to start Ubuntu or any other shell as default. It's good.

[luann.athayde]

As a developer, all I can say is: was about time! O.O