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2. Downloading, Installation, and Setup

Prateek Singh1 
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Bangalore, India
 

The Windows Subsystem for Linux is a compatibility feature that acts as a translation layer, but is a Windows feature that has to be enabled before use. Then we need to install a Linux distribution from the Microsoft Store and finally set it up before first use. Let’s get started with each of these steps one by one.

Enabling the WSL Feature

The Windows Subsystem for Linux needs to be enabled at the host operating system level, and there are two ways to achieve this: first using the graphical user interface (GUI) and second using PowerShell. Unless you enable the Windows ...

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