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Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

By : Leeks
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Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

4.6 (8)
By: Leeks

Overview of this book

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) allows you to run native Linux tools alongside traditional Windows applications. Whether you’re developing applications across multiple operating systems or looking to add more tools to your Windows environment, WSL offers endless possibilities. You’ll start by understanding what WSL is and learn how to install and configure WSL along with different Linux distros. Next, you'll learn techniques that allow you to work across both Windows and Linux environments. You’ll discover how to install and customize the new Windows Terminal. We'll also show you how to work with code in WSL using Visual Studio Code (VS Code). In addition to this, you’ll explore how to work with containers with Docker and Kubernetes, and how to containerize a development environment using VS Code. While Microsoft has announced support for GPU and GUI applications in an upcoming release of WSL, at the time of writing these features are either not available or only in early preview releases. This book focuses on the stable, released features of WSL and giving you a solid understanding of the amazing techniques that you can use with WSL today. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to configure WSL and Windows Terminal to suit your preferences, and productively use Visual Studio Code for developing applications with WSL.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Section 1: Introduction, Installation, and Configuration
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Section 2:Windows and Linux – A Winning Combination
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Section 3: Developing with the Windows Subsystem for Linux

Chapter 6: Getting More from Windows Terminal

The new Windows Terminal was introduced in Chapter 3, Getting Started with Windows Terminal, and you saw how to install it and customize the order of your profiles and the color schemes that they use in that chapter. In this chapter, we will explore Windows Terminal further and look at a couple of different ways to stay productive with multiple different shells running in Windows Terminal. After that, we will look at adding custom profiles to enable you to simplify your flow for common tasks.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:

  • Customizing tab titles
  • Working with multiple panes
  • Adding custom profiles

We'll start the chapter by looking at how to use tab titles to help you manage multiple tabs.

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