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Install Linux terminal on Windows 10

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:

 

  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  • openSUSE Leap 15.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1
  • Kali Linux
  • Debian GNU / Linux
  • Fedora Remix for WSL
  • Pengwin
  • Pengwin Enterprise
  • Alpine WSL

 

 

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:

 

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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:

 

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Step 3

We confirm by clicking Yes and after this we go to the following route:
  • Control Panel
  • Programs
  • Programs and characteristics

 

 

 

 

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Step 4

We click on "Activate or deactivate Windows features" and in the wizard we activate the "Linux Subsystem" box:

 

 

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Step 5

We click OK and the file search process will start:

 

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Step 6

Then the changes are applied:

 

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Step 7

When this ends we will see the following:

 

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Step 8

We must restart Windows 10 to complete the process.

 

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Step 9

Once we log in, we enter “bash” in the search engine:

 

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Step 10

We run the command, but in the current editions of Windows 10 we can select the distribution directly from the Windows store:

 

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Step 11

In this case we click on Start and the terminal will open with the download of the selected system:

 

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Step 12

After this we enter the desired username and password and we will be ready to use the Linux terminal in Windows 10:

 

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It's that simple to activate the Linux terminal in Windows 10..

 


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