Install Windows Subsystem for Linux

Check out the official Manual Installation Steps guide.

Addititional steps to get the whole experience are explained below.

Distributations

Goto Microsoft Store for a list of available Linux distributions flavors to download.

IDE

Visual Studio Code

To use Visual Studio Code in WSL distros, make sure to add VS Code to system PATH.

Environment Variables

On Windows

This PC\ -> Properties\ -> Advanced system settings\ -> Advanced\ -> Environment Variables\ -> System Variables\ -> Path

Add new entry %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin

On Linux

Follow Windows as a Linux developer machine official guide.

On macOS

Follow Launching from the command line official guide.

Run code . command inside a development directory from any WSL terminal and you should see Installing VS Code Server for x64 message.

Extensions

• ms-vscode-remote.vscode-remote-extensionpack

Containers

• Using Remote Containers in WSL 2

Troubleshooting installation

• Related errors
• WSL troubleshooting page

What's Next

Head over to Windows documentation under DevOps section for more usage instructions and details.