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Another common way to start with
Linux is the Windows subsystem for Linux.

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This Windows subsystem for Linux provides by default an Ubuntu instance
that can be started as a part of the Windows operating system.

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Alternatively, other distributions
may also be used.

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So WSL uses parts of the Windows
operating system for. For that reason it's

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a bit different from other distributions
regarding the boot procedure and kernel use.

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And as a result it does
not offer a full command line experience.

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For that reason, for an in depth exploration of Linux
features, I would recommend you don't use wsl, but you

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better install Linux in a virtual machine in a
way that we have explored in the previous two lessons.

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If you want to do it anyway. This
is a rough overview of how to do it.

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First, in the Windows features you need
to enable Hyper V, Then you restart.

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Next you're in
PowerShell with administrator privileges.

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Next you use WSL install
from the PowerShell, you restart

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and you have your WSL.
And that's how it works.

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How does it work if you
want to use WSL on Windows? Well,

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you need an administrator powershell, and
from there you. You use WSL install.

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So now that I have updated
wsl, I need to install a distribution

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because WSL has told us that
there's no distribution and that makes sense.

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So we need WSL install Ubuntu and
that's all. Install Ubuntu. And now it's telling

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us that it has been created successfully.
And now we go through some basic setup.

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So I'm making a user
account with the name Student.

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Feel free to pick
anything that you want.

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I need to
enter the password.

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Look at that. Here
I'm in my WSL machine.

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What does
that mean?

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I'm in the WSL machine and
I like to use Uname R,

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which is testing my Linux kernel,
which is the Microsoft WSL kernel,

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typing ls, which is listing
files in the current directory.

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And here we have
the WSL Linux environment.

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Now there's one thing I want you
to be aware of. This is wsl.

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It's a Linux layer that runs on top
of Windows if you want to learn Linux.

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In fact, I don't recommend you use WSL
because so many things are different, because it's

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still running on a Windows foundation and you
see many parts of the Windows operating system.

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So instead of using wsl, better
install Linux in a virtual machine

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or run it in the cloud,
as explained in the next lesson.