Install Linux desktop app on WSL if a full desktop is unnecessary ... Click the first option (the bash run command) to start using Linux. We use Ubuntu as the preferred Linux operating system.

To make it work you need to have default Ubuntu 18.04 or Ubuntu 20.04 in WSL version 2. Public TCP Firewall rule for 'VcXsrv windows xserver' needs to be disabled manually. Start xserver with shortcut ...

WSL works a lot like a virtual machine (WSL2 is actually just a Hyper-V container), but the Linux VM doesnt have its own desktop environment ... still want the typical Ubuntu or Debian distro ...

This dotfiles repository is currently aimed for Ubuntu on WSL, Ubuntu Server, and Ubuntu Desktop, tested against versions 20.04, 22.04 and 24.04. See how to get started with WSL here. It's also ...