Microsoft has developed a specialized function in Windows 10 called the Linux Subsystem WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) with which developers are given the ability to run a GNU / Linux environment in Windows where the tools, utilities and line applications are integrated command of the Linux operating system itself, but in a Windows environment thus avoiding the creation of a Windows 10 virtual machine which can in many cases limit the natural use of utilities..
Linux terminal advantages
Thanks to this Linux terminal it is possible:
- Make use of command line tools like grep, sed, awk and other ELF-64 binaries
- Supports NodeJS, Javascript, Python, Ruby, C / C ++, C # & F #, Rust, Go languages
- Supports services like SSHD, MySQL, Apache, lighttpd, MongoDB, PostgreSQL
- We can select distributions from the Windows 10 store
- GNU / Linux applications can be invoked in Windows
Linux terminal applications
The Linux terminal in Windows 10 allows us to install applications such as:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1
- Kali Linux
Let's see how to install the Linux terminal in Windows 10.
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Install Linux terminal on Windows 10
Step 1
The first step to take will be to activate the developer mode, for this we go to the Start - Configuration menu:
Step 2
We go to the “Update and security” category and we go to the “For programmers” section and there we must activate the “Programmer mode” switch:
Step 3
We confirm by clicking Yes and after this we go to the following route:
- Programs and characteristics
Step 4
We click on "Activate or deactivate Windows features" and in the wizard we activate the "Linux Subsystem" box:
Step 5
We click OK and the file search process will start:
Step 6
Then the changes are applied:
Step 7
When this ends we will see the following:
Step 8
We must restart Windows 10 to complete the process.
Step 9
Once we log in, we enter “bash” in the search engine:
Step 10
We run the command, but in the current editions of Windows 10 we can select the distribution directly from the Windows store:
Step 11
In this case we click on Start and the terminal will open with the download of the selected system:
Step 12
After this we enter the desired username and password and we will be ready to use the Linux terminal in Windows 10:
It's that simple to activate the Linux terminal in Windows 10..
