Unified Development Environment

December 29, 2021 - environment wsl linux windows

After many years of waiting patiently there is finally a reasonable way to have a unified development environment from windows named WSL version 2. This finally enables us developers to run a full linux environment natively in windows without virtual machine or dual-boot. Learn about the details that made it functioning.

Native Terminal

As you can see this is a terminal experience in windows enhanced with ConEmu that provides a full linux experience. Some cool feature are:

Support various linux versions / distros (ubuntu is the default).
VSCode remote integration.
GPU Support (Nvidia CUDA).

The only major issue that still prevents me from using it more frequently is horrible NTFS performance.

Installation

wsl --install