I’ve put this quick tutorial together to demonstrate how you can run Oh-My-ZSH and have a really awesome Linux terminal on Windows (knowing that others will be switching back to soon Windows too ))… Oh-My-ZSH running on Windows 10 – A modern Linux Terminal for Windows 10įirst of all, we need to enable WSL (Windows Sub-system for Linux), we can do this by opening PowerShell as Administator and then running the following command: Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux More information on the move can be found in an earlier blog post. I’ve recently switched my Apple MacBook Pro over to a Dell XPS and am now using Windows as my daily driver.

Enhanced Docker integration: You can natively run Docker containers on WSL 2 by enabling the WSL-2 backend setting in Docker Desktop this will help improve the compatibility of your Docker apps and enhance overall performance.Oh-My-ZSH makes your terminal look and feel awesome – I used it daily on my MacOSX machines and also on Linux desktops in the past too!.

Thanks to WSL 2, there is a significant reduction in the dev environment complexity and additional overhead.

Seamless integration with Windows: Since WSL 2 is directly integrated with the Windows OS, developers can run Linux and Windows apps simultaneously, utilize shared file directories and even configure VS Code to work with apps running on WSL 2.

Improved performance: WSL 2 provides optimum performance as it uses a lightweight virtual machine this gives your applications faster boot times and allows efficient resource utilization.

You can directly get it through the Microsoft Store you’re also free to choose from a list of supported Linux distributions.

Simple setup: Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 is effortless to install.

Easily access Linux tools and utilities: Developers can directly use Linux command-line tools such as awk, sed, grep, iftop, etc., without a dedicated VM or container.

Here are some of the other important WSL 2 benefits for developers:

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