Quick Guide On Setting Up Ubuntu On Your Windows 10 Desktop With The Faster Microsoft WSL 2

This video covers how to quickly (We don't count time spent updating here) set up Ubuntu on your windows 10 desktop with the faster (than WSL 1) Microsoft Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.

I know this is a little different than my usual videos, but I thought this might be a big help to some of you that could benefit from the potential speed increase.

Prefer a text version? I wrote a blog post covering this:

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Timestamps
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0:00 Video Overview & Intro
0:43 Setting Windows Updates To Fast Track & Updating
1:38 Enabling WSL And The Virtual Machine Platform
2:30 Installing Ubuntu On Windows 10
3:03 Setting The Default WSL Version to Version 2
3:30 Installing The New Windows Terminal (Preview)
4:33 Video Summary & Outro
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Commands & links below (Link at End):
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wsl --set-version Ubuntu-18.04 2
4 (Optional):
wsl --set-default-version 2
5 You can use either a:
wsl --list --verbose
or b:
wsl -l -v

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[liroq]

Thank you so much for your efforts in creating training videos. I don't speak English well, and I'm from Russia. But your videos help me, thanks again.

[Deanin]

I know this is a little different than my usual videos, but I thought this might be a big help to some of you that could benefit from the potential speed increase. Sorry for going a bit off brand with this one. If you have any questions, I'll try to answer them although I don't know how much help I'll be!

Stay healthy! ~Dean

[sangomalsa]

Switched to Linux bout 1.5 years ago, because writing Rails with Windows was practically impossible. Looking forward to the next video to see how far Windows has progressed and how you setup your workflow

[drakesadosky]

The updating on my machine took about 9 hours total but the tutorial was really easy to follow, and worked

[mblakew]

Really concise, I was considering running Linux with virtual box since I’ve had issues in the past with windows and rails 4.2, but this looks really clean and easy to install so thank you for the video!

[MirrorCommunications]

Thanks for the shoutout! Windows runs its own custom Linux kernel now which is pretty cool. It's booted without Systemd though. So commands like $ sudo systemctl start postgresql won't work but $ sudo service postgresql start will work.

[Alwalou]

I really want to know the deference between windows power shell and the terminal we installed

[suthamm]

Is the development done in Ubuntu console or Windows terminal?

[dmdcollection]

Please make a video with PWA on Ruby on Rails 6. Thanks!